About

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Serving our community

In Speech & Hearing Sciences, we are committed to preparing students to meet the growing need for speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Our program is designed to give you the knowledge and clinical training you need to serve children and adults with communication disorders in a range of medical and educational settings. Learn about our Vision and Mission >>

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Undergraduate success

Our undergraduate and post-baccalaureate programs provide a strong foundation in speech and hearing development and disorders, along with early opportunities for clinical observation, assistantships and research. We prepare you for jobs and professional training in health fields such as speech-language pathology and audiology. We are dedicated to your success.

Undergraduate Programs

Graduate excellence

In our speech-language pathology graduate program, clinical training is built into every term. You start in our on-campus clinic and community partner clinics in your first year and go off campus for two full-time community externships in your second year, giving you 400 hours of direct clinical experience. Our job placement rate for graduate students is nearly 100%.

Graduate Programs

PSU speech and hearing students in class

What Sets Us Apart

We are proud to be recognized as one of the nation’s top speech-language pathology programs by U.S. News & World Report. Our students form a close community with active student groups and events. Our faculty leads research and clinical services in areas such as swallowing, stuttering, autism and language disorders.

Meet our Faculty

Clinical services

We provide a full range of speech-language pathology services for children and adults at our on-campus clinic, at no cost to our clients. We also partner with hospitals, school districts, skilled nursing facilities and private practices in community-based clinical settings.

Our partnerships

Our location in downtown Portland and tradition of strong community partnerships gives our students easy access to hands-on clinical experience. Our partners include OHSU, Legacy Health, Portland Public Schools and dozens of other school districts, hospital systems and private clinics.