Communication Sciences and Disorders

Overview

About this Program

We were the first department in Canada to provide both clinical and research degrees. The Communication Sciences and Disorders program offered by McGill University aims to educate the next generation of well-prepared and innovative speech-language pathology professionals by providing enriched classroom training, clinical laboratory activities that enhance the transition from theory to practice, and outstanding clinical practicum experiences. Our research degrees are designed to develop leading researchers and scholars, who will go on to train future investigators in the field of communication sciences and disorders and who, through their research, will advance our understanding of the processes of human communication and its breakdown.

Interdisciplinary interactions are at the core of our research training approach, which includes preparation to conduct both fundamental and clinically applied investigations. Our professors have collaborative ties with many departments and institutes of McGill, including:

• psychology

• linguistics

• neuroscience

• otolaryngology

• biomedical engineering

• Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

• other Montreal universities

They also maintain national and international collaborations. Students can access this rich collaborative network via the McGill Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music, a world-class interdisciplinary research centre established by the School. The multilingual context in which we reside provides a unique environment for language research.

The School offers:

• a professional degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the M.Sc. (Applied) level with specialization in Speech Language Pathology

• two research degrees: an M.Sc. (Research) and a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders