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Department of Communication Disorders

The Audiology Doctorate Program at LSUHSC

The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans is home to the first approved Au.D. program in Louisiana.

Highlights of this extraordinary program are listed below.

 

Student and teacher

1.  The Au.D. Program is a four year program that includes an externship year.

2.  The faculty is comprised of an outstanding group of audiology clinicians and clinician-investigators.

3. The audiology doctorate program is part of the Department of Communication Disorders.  The department is housed within the School of Allied Health Professions and includes state of the art audiology clinics, classrooms, and research laboratories. 

4.  A wide variety of clinical settings and placements are available within close proximity to the campus.  Graduate students will receive hands-on training in all areas of the field. 

student5.  The facility is located in one of the most exciting cities in the U.S., and is in the heart of the medical district.  As such, we are able to offer a variety of off-site clinical experiences.

6. The employment rate for our graduates is 100%. The first cohort of Doctor of Audiology students completed their degree in the spring of 2008.

7. Being part of a major medical center situated in a large metropolitan area offers students unique opportunities and exposure to a wide variety of patients and procedures that they may not have direct access to in other settings.  Students in the program have access to the following:

  • Patients of all ages: birth to geriatric

  • Neonatal Hearing Screens

  • Hearing Aids

  • FM and Assistive Listening Graduation

  • Cochlear Implants

  • Aural rehabilitation

  • Tinnitus Management

  • Electrophysiological Evaluation,
    including early (ABR), middle, and late potentials   

  • ENG/VNG

  • Posturography/balance testing

  •  Intraoperative Monitoring

  • Topographic Brain Mapping

  • Otoacoustic Emissions

  • (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF Au.D. COURSES

TYPICAL 4-YEAR SEQUENCE OF COURSES FOR Au.D.

 

Lab 

     Admissions Requirements

     Minimum requirements for admissions are:

1. A Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
2. A combined verbal and quantitative GRE score of at
    least 1000, or an undergraduate GPA of at least a 3.0
    with a combined GRE score of at least 900.

 

 

For additional information, contact:

Department of Communication Disorders

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Audiology Doctorate Program

1900 Gravier Street

New Orleans, Louisiana  70112

Phone (504) 568-4348

Fax (504) 568-4352

Email  rturne@lsuhsc.edu