We have five full time faculty positions and three permanent half-time clinical supervisors. Additional supervision is contracted part-time as needed. We admit about 25 students each year to the graduate program. Our overall enrollment is about 150 students in both undergraduate and graduate programs. In most respects this course is similar to those offered in other communicative sciences and disorders programs.
Students make class presentations of the chapters from the text prior to the examination.
However, from the beginning of the course and concurrent with the text review, planning begins for the student research projects. The balance of the course is designed to support that enterprise. Preliminary topics are submitted by the students and approved by the instructor. There is enormous latitude in the subject matter allowed. Then, formal written proposals are submitted and these are carefully critiqued and edited.