Practicum & Externship Experiences

All students completing the Graduate Studies Program in Auditory Learning and Spoken Language will have placements at local and in-state facilities such as Sound Beginnings of Cache Valley and Primary Children’s Cochlear Implant Center as well as innovative, nationally recognized programs or schools serving children with hearing loss who are acquiring spoken language, such as the:

• Auditory Oral School of New York (Brooklyn, NY)
• CASTLE Program (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
• CREC Soundbridge (Wethersfield, CT),
• Hearts for Hearing Foundation (Oklahoma City, OK),
• Jean Weingarten Oral Peninsula School for the Deaf (San Francisco, CA),
• Listen & Talk (Seattle, WA),
• Presbyterian Ear Institute – Albuquerque (Albuquerque, NM),
• Saticoy Elementary School (Los Angeles, CA),
• The Moog Center for Deaf Children (St. Louis, MO),
• The Vancouver Oral Centre for Deaf Children (Vancouver, British Columbia), and
• Tucker-Maxon Oral School for the Deaf (Portland, OR).

 

Faculty are continuously adding new practicum and externship sites that meet the rigorous training needs of each field of study – Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology, and Deaf Education/Special Education.