Admission Criteria

• A Bachelors Degree from an accredited four-year institution
• Official Transcripts from all previous institutions
• Undergraduate GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale
• Two Letters of Recommendation
• Personal Statement
  • Tell us if your transcripts accurately reflect your abilities and if not, explain why.
  • What is your interest and/or experience in the field?
  • What are your professional goals?

Note:

• Criteria for admission is lower than the highly competitive criteria for admission into the graduate SLP program.
• Students admitted to the post-bachelor program are not directly admitted into the graduate Speech-Language Pathology Program following completion of this certificate. Those interested in attending the EMU graduate Speech-Language Pathology Program will need to apply following completion of this certificate.
• This program is designed to be completed in one year, with half of the courses taken during the Fall term and half of the courses taken during the Winter term. Courses are not offered during the summer and are not exclusively offered in the evenings. 

Department Information

Special Education, College of Education

David Winters, Ph.D. | Department Head | 128 Porter | 734.487.3300 | david.winters@emich.edu

Program Director

Lidia Lee, Ph.D., CCC-A | Interim SLP Program Director | 128L Porter | 734.487.2790 | llee@emich.edu

Advisor Information

Lidia Lee, Ph.D., CCC-A | Professor | 128B Porter | 734.487.3300 | llee@emich.edu

Certificate Requirements: 29 hours

Students must complete the following courses

• SPSI 332 - Acoustic Phonetics: Speech Science 2 hrs
• SPSI 334 - Applied Phonetics 3 hrs
• SPSI 335 - Introduction to Communication Disorders 3 hrs
• SPSI 336 - Physiologic Phonetics: Anatomy and Physiology 3 hrs
• SPSI 337 - Language Acquisition 3 hrs
• SPSI 340 - Phonological and Articulation Disorders 3 hrs
• SPSI 342 - Language Disorders in Children 3 hrs
• SPSI 347 - Normal Aging and Health Issues in Speech-Language Pathology 3 hrs
• SPSI 392 - Introduction to Audiology 3 hrs

• One course from the following:

• SPGN 251 - Introduction to Inclusion and Disabilities Studies in a Diverse Society | GEUS 3 hrs
• SPGN 510 - Introduction to Inclusive Education and Disability Studies  3 hrs