MS in Communication Disorders

Making Communication Possible

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What are the best methods for assisting a stroke survivor to regain communication and cognitive abilities? How will you prepare to help those with learning disorders, articulation difficulties, or fluency problems overcome their communication challenges? How can you help a hard-of-hearing child learn to communicate effectively? The ability to communicate is a basic human function that affects all aspects of our lives. When it is limited or lost, we lose our ability to connect with others and express our needs and thoughts. As a speech-language pathologist, you will be the invaluable professional specially educated to assist all who suffer from speech, language, swallowing, and other communication disorders. You are now ready to deepen your knowledge, gain exposure to a range of techniques, and, most of all, begin to work in the field, accruing experiences in a multitude of clinical settings.

Nationally ranked reputation.

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 30 graduate programs of over 250 of its kind nationwide and accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Emerson’s master’s program in Communication Disorders prepares you to be a critical thinker and an innovative clinician. For more than 60 years, Emerson College has been a pioneer in the increasingly vital field of speech-language pathology and has earned a reputation for excellence in clinical preparation. You will be educated in applying developmental, cognitive, psychosocial, behavioral, and medical models to the assessment and treatment of a broad range of communication disorders.

Opportunities of a large university in a close-knit community.

Emerson’s program provides the academic and clinical excellence of a large research university within a small college environment. Coursework and clinical experiences in areas ranging from early intervention, feeding problems and swallowing disorders, to aphasia and cognitive communicative disorders, enable you to work with pediatric, school-age, adult, and geriatric populations.

You will develop critical knowledge through small classroom discussions of such issues as aphasia, disorders on the pervasive developmental delay spectrum, disorders of fluency, phonology, articulation, and voice, feeding problems and disorders, and many more. You will explore how the theoretical aspects of the discipline apply to practice.

Exceptional clinical experience on and off campus.

As an Emerson student, you will be provided with the vital technical sophistication necessary to excel in your field both on and off campus. We have language classrooms, individual and group therapy rooms for children and adults, a master video control room wired to cameras in every therapy room, an audio and video transcription lab, a therapy preparation room, an audiologic testing suite, a speech science lab, fully mediated classrooms, and labs featuring computer-based treatment software. Through on-campus clinical placements, you will learn teamwork, counseling skills, and how to best serve a multicultural urban population.

Boston as a medical epicenter

Within the city of Boston and its surrounding suburbs, you will be connected to one of the most dynamic educational and health care environments in the country. Emerson is just blocks away from the city’s renowned medical centers and research facilities. Once you master an appropriate level of clinical competency on campus, you will continue your clinical education through off-campus placements.