School of Communication at Northwestern University :: Communication Sciences and Disorders

The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) at Northwestern University began as a Speech Clinic in 1928. Over the next four decades, CSD developed under pioneers like Professors Raymond Carhart, Helmer Myklebust, and Harold Westlake to become one of the top-ranked academic programs in the country.
Frances Searle Building		In 1972, the department moved into a magnificent new facility, the Frances Searle building, located on the shores of Lake Michigan with classroom, clinic, and research facilities under one roof for all the departments' programs in audiology and hearing sciences, learning disabilities, and speech language pathology.
Today, CSD offers: Undergraduate studies in one of four different concentrations Audiology and Hearing Sciences Human Communication Sciences (functions as a premed major) Learning Disabilities Speech Language Pathology Professional MA graduate programs in learning disabilities and speech language pathology A new professional Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program The research PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders, one of the country's largest doctoral programs Approximately 100 individuals are affiliated with the department's research, teaching, and clinical-educational service mission. Department faculty represent a diverse, yet related group of disciplines that include speech language pathology, audiology, learning disabilities, communication and learning science, psychology, neuroscience, neurophysiology, medicine, neurolinguistics, psychoacoustics, deaf education, neurobiology, electrical engineering, and more. Many CSD faculty hold joint appointments in other departments including Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Neurobiology and Physiology, Electrical Engineering, Psychology, Neurology, and Linguistics. Northwestern's pioneer CSD faculty were clinicians as well as researchers. The department's clinical service and education missions continue in clinics housed in the Frances Searle building and in hospital-based clinics in downtown Chicago. A full range of diagnostic and treatment services are offered for patients of all ages with hearing, speech, learning, language, voice, and swallowing disorders. We invite you to learn more about the programs, courses, faculty, research laboratories, and clinics that make up Northwestern's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.