The University of Alabama’s Communicative Disorders undergraduate program provides general training in the areas of speech, language, pathology, and audiology. Communicative Disorders students are introduced to all aspects of the development of speech and language, hearing, and associated disorders to prepare them for further educational training at the graduate level. Completion of the Communicative Disorders major courses is one component of the undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in communicative disorders. Our faculty consists of both academic and clinical professionals with expertise in areas such as developmental speech and language disorders, autism spectrum disorders, adult neurogenic communication disorders, fluency disorders, swallowing disorders, voice disorders, auditory prostheses, and balance issues.
Programs
The Department of Communicative Disorders offers a bachelor of arts (BA) degree and a minor in Communicative Disorders (speech-language pathology). Students majoring in Communicative Disorders are expected to matriculate to graduate study in speech-language pathology or audiology.
- Major
- Minor
Faculty
Chair
- Dr. Memorie Gosa
Clinic Director
- Dr. JoAnne Payne
Coordinator, Audiological Services
- Dr. Christy Albea
Professor
- Dr. Marcia Hay-McCutcheon
Associate professors
- Dr. Angela Barber
- Dr. Anthony Buhr
- Dr. Memorie Gosa
- Dr. Evie Malaia
Assistant professors
- Dr. Luca Campanelli
- Dr. Spyridoula Cheimariou
- Dr. Paul Reed
- Dr. HyunJoo Yoo
Instructor
- Dr. Laura Moss
Clinical Educators
- Mrs. Jennifer Baggett
- Mrs. Mary Bryan
- Mrs. Candace Cook
- Mrs. Kayce Hinton
- Mrs. Amanda Mennen
- Mrs. Sara Shirley
- Mrs. DeLaine Stricklin
Audiologist
- Dr. Emma Brothers
Distinguished Graduate Research Professor
- Dr. C. Craig Formby
Courses
To learn skills and techniques helpful as they continue on in the college career. Through experiential learning and guest speakers students will learn many things about the field. The course presents essential characteristics and basic processes of inquiry and analysis of the discipline of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
To learn skills and techniques helpful as they continue on in the college career. Through experiential learning and guest speakers students will learn many things about the field. The course presents the essential characteristics and basic processes of inquiry and analysis of the discipline of Communication Sciences and Disorders.