Students must elect either a comprehensive examination or thesis as a capstone experience.

Comprehensive Examination (non-thesis)

All students except those writing a thesis must pass a written comprehensive examination designed to assess their mastery of the professional concepts of communication sciences and disorders in the areas of normative processes, pathologies, and remediation. Students will write for six hours, answering six out of eight integrated questions. Students who have selected either the Early Childhood and Language Disorders or Language and Literacy Concentration are required to respond to one question specific to their course of study.

Thesis

Students may choose to write a thesis. Upon completion of an original research project, student must defend the thesis in an oral examination and must gain approval of the thesis committee. In addition to the required coursework specified above, students must register for 6 credits of 899.