Program Overview

Program Overview

The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida offers the Doctor of Audiology degree. This campus-based program prepares students for a professional career in audiology, providing a wide array of experiences in diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology.

Program Details

• Prepares students for a professional career in audiology.
• Provides a wide array of experiences in the practice of diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology.
• Provides students with complex and diverse skills necessary to meet the challenges of the rapidly changing hearing health care field.

Curriculum

The clinical and academic curriculum includes coursework in:

• Basic sciences
• Applied audiology
• Clinical research
• Statistics
• Audiologic rehabilitation
• Medical neuroscience
• Neuro-otology
• Cochlear implants
• Health care administration
• Programmable hearing aids
• Counseling
• Aging

Degree Requirements

• The on-campus program for bachelors-level applicants is a four-year graduate degree totaling 110 semester hours.
• The curriculum includes 78 hours of coursework in basic sciences, applied audiology, clinical research, statistics, audiologic rehabilitation, medical neuroscience, neuro-otology, cochlear implants, pharmacology, health care administration, programmable and digital hearing aids, counseling, communication and aging, and speech-language pathology.
• In the remaining 32 hours of the on-campus program, students gain extensive clinical practicum experience.

Clinical Practicum Experience

• These practicum experiences utilize various resources at the University of Florida Health Science Center and affiliated hospitals in the North Florida area, as well as the Veterans Administration Medical Center.
• The final clinical training hours occur during the fourth year of the program as part of an audiology externship placement.

Degrees Offered

• Doctor of Audiology

Student Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

• Identifies, describes, explains, and applies acoustic, anatomical, psychological, developmental, and social aspects of normal and disordered hearing.
• Identifies, plans, and applies the range of appropriate management steps for persons with hearing and balance disorders and the methods for determining the effectiveness of each.

Skills

• Through advanced professional practice, obtains accurate information about hearing and balance function, including via case history interview, and through the appropriate selection and completion of behavioral, electrophysiological, and psycho-social assessments.
• Applies clinical decision-making and problem-solving skills in a clinical audiology context.

Professional Behavior

• Critically evaluates research relevant to audiology practice.
• Communicates critical, clinically relevant information verbally and/or in writing.

Course List

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Departmental Courses

• LIN 5741: Applied English Grammar (3 credits)
• LIN 6720: Second Language Acquisition (3 credits)
• SPA 5051: Clinical Observation in Audiology (1 credit)
• SPA 5102: Auditory Anatomy and Physiology (2 credits)
• SPA 5204: Phonological Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 5211: Voice Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 5225: Principles of Speech Pathology: Stuttering (3 credits)
• SPA 5254: Neurocognitive Language Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 5304: Principles of Audiological Evaluation (3 credits)
• SPA 5401: Speech Pathology Language Disorder (3 credits)
• SPA 6010: Basic Auditory Sciences (3 credits)
• SPA 6133L: Hearing Aid Analysis Laboratory (1 credit)
• SPA 6233: Speech Motor Control Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 6270: Auditory Processing Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 6305: Pediatric Audiology (3 credits)
• SPA 6311: Medical Audiology (3 credits)
• SPA 6317: Vestibular Disorders (2 credits)
• SPA 6323: Audiologic Rehabilitation for Adults (2 credits)
• SPA 6324: Audiologic Rehabilitation for Children (2 credits)
• SPA 6340: Amplification I (2 credits)
• SPA 6341: Amplification II (2 credits)
• SPA 6390: Proseminar: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (3 credits)
• SPA 6410: Adult Language Disorders (3 credits)
• SPA 6506: Clinical Clerkship in Audiology (1 credit)
• SPA 6524: Practicum in Speech-Language Therapy: UFSHC (1-6 credits)
• SPA 6531: Clinical Practice in Hearing Assessment (1-6 credits)
• SPA 6564: Communication and Aging (3 credits)
• SPA 6581: Special Clinical (1-9 credits)
• SPA 6805: Introduction to Graduate Research (3 credits)
• SPA 6905: Individual Study (1-3 credits)
• SPA 6910: Supervised Research (1-5 credits)
• SPA 6930: Proseminar in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (1 credit)
• SPA 6935: Applied Reading Disabilities: Diagnosis and Treatment (3 credits)
• SPA 6936: Special Topics (3 credits)
• SPA 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5 credits)
• SPA 6942: Externship in Speech-Language Pathology (7-12 credits)
• SPA 6971: Research for Master's Thesis (1-15 credits)
• SPA 7318: Clinical Auditory Electrophysiology (5 credits)
• SPA 7319: Balance Disorders: Evaluation and Treatment (5 credits)
• SPA 7343: Cochlear Implants and Assistive Devices (5 credits)
• SPA 7348: Principles of Amplification (5 credits)
• SPA 7353: Environmental Hearing Conservation (5 credits)
• SPA 7354: Seminar in Audiology: Hearing Conservation and Noise Control (3 credits)
• SPA 7391: Business and Professional Issues in Audiology (5 credits)
• SPA 7945: Graduate Practicum in Audiology (3-6 credits)
• SPA 7958: Clinical Externship (3-12 credits)
• SPA 7979: Advanced Research (1-12 credits)
• SPA 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15 credits)

College of Public Health and Health Professions Courses

• GEY 5935: Topics in Gerontology (3 credits)
• GEY 6220: Overview of Geriatric Care Management (3 credits)
• GEY 6306: Interpersonal Communication Within the Aging Network (3 credits)
• GEY 6646: Issues and Concepts in Gerontology (3 credits)
• GEY 6936: Professional Development in Gerontology/Geriatrics (1-2 credits)
• HSC 6905: Independent Study (1-3 credits)
• HSC 6910: Supervised Research (1-5 credits)
• HSC 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5 credits)
• PHC 6053: Regression Methods for the Health and Life Sciences (3 credits)
• PHC 6193: Qualitative Data Analysis (3 credits)
• PHC 6195: Health Information for Diverse Populations: Theory & Methods (3 credits)
• PHC 6447: Ecology of HIV/AIDS in the Rural South (3 credits)
• PHC 6917: Supervised Research Project (1-6 credits)
• PHC 6945: Public Health Practicum (1-6 credits)
• PHC 6946: Public Health Internship (1-9 credits)
• PHC 7587: Theory Development and Testing in Behavioral & Community Public Health (2 credits)
• PHC 7907: Social and Behavioral Science Journal Club (1 credit)
• RCS 6036: Or to Forensic Vt P (3 credits)
• RCS 6601: Forensic Rehabilitation Consultation I (3 credits)
• RSD 6110: Rehabilitation Science Theory and Application I (3 credits)
• RSD 6905: Individual Work (1-4 credits)
• RSD 6910: Supervised Research (1-5 credits)
• RSD 6930: Special Topics in Rehabilitation Science (1-4 credits)
• RSD 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-3 credits)
• RSD 7979: Advanced Research (1-12 credits)
• RSD 7980: Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15 credits)