About the ComD Department

• The ComD department offers students the opportunity to complete an undergraduate, pre-professional major in audiology and speech-language pathology.
• The ComD department offers a master's degree program in speech-language pathology. This program allows students to meet all certification, credentialing, and licensure requirements for professional practice.
• The ComD faculty carry out basic and applied research into the nature of speech, language, and hearing and into the assessment and treatment of disorders of these processes.
• The department provides clinical services for:
  • the assessment and treatment of speech, language, and hearing disorders of BYU students, faculty, and staff;
  • the assessment and treatment of these disorders in the community as part of students' clinical training;
  • the monitoring of hearing ability levels of university employees for OSHA compliance;
  • the testing and treatment of missionaries referred by MTC personnel, referred pre-service teachers; and
  • the hearing assessment of high-risk babies in central Utah in collaboration with the Utah State Health department.
• All training and services are provided in compliance with the Code of Ethics of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

The objectives of the ComD department include:

• Giving undergraduate students a demanding, well-presented major in audiology and speech-language pathology which sharpens their analytical skills and integrative abilities, prepares them for service and leadership in the home, church, and community, and enables them to enter and excel in the master's degree programs which are required for entry into the professions.
• Preparing master's degree students for entry into the profession of speech-language pathology who will prove to be competent, ethical, congenial, hard-working clinicians, some of whom will eventually pursue the PhD degree.
• Maintaining and improving excellence in faculty scholarship by fostering ongoing faculty development, supporting research, rewarding publication, and by advancing the field through published research and professional activity at the local, national, and international levels; achieving excellence in clinical services which will be an example to the region and to the world.