UT Health San Antonio offers a leveling program, the Graduate Certificate in Communication Sciences and Disorders, for students who need to take prerequisite courses before applying to speech-language pathology graduate programs.
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Graduate Certificate in Communication Sciences and Disorders Program Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college of university in a major other than Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Overall GPA ≥ 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- Applicants who live outside of Texas must reside in a state that participates in the National Council or State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). Visit the NC-SARA website to confirm a state’s participation.
What’s a speech-language pathologist?
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are licensed professionals who work to assess, diagnose, treat and help prevent speech, voice, language, cognitive-linguistic and swallowing disorders across the age-span.
Program at a glance
- Five courses, for a total of 15 semester credit hours over three semesters
- Students must satisfactorily complete all required course work with a grade of “B” or better for the award of a Graduate Certificate in Communication Sciences
- Successful program completion prepares students to meet the ASHA certification requirements in preparatory work toward admission to the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program
Meet a certificate program graduate — and current MS in Speech-Language pathology student
Carmela Delacruz was teaching English to preschoolers in Seoul, South Korea when she realized she wanted to be a speech-language pathologist.
Teaching was already a second act of sorts for Delacruz, who had taken a job with a startup company curating corporate snack programs following her graduation with a bachelor’s in telecommunications studies with a minor in business from Texas A&M University. Her original dream had been to create broadcast programming, a goal inspired by her older sister, who has Down syndrome.
“I wanted to make appropriate television for kids with special needs,” Delacruz said. “I quickly found out that it was a market I couldn’t get into easily.”