2003 DOCTORAL PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

[Beverly B. Wulfeck]

				DOCTORAL PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

		SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
		JOINT DOCTORAL PROGRAM (JDP) LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS

		Beverly Wulfeck (SDSU) and Elizabeth Bates & David Swinney (UCSD)
						Program Directors

			APPLICATION DEADLINE for FALL, 2003:  JANUARY 20, 2003

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

The JDP in Language and Communicative Disorders is designed to educate a new
generation of scientists who are interested in applying research skills to
the disorders.  This interdisciplinary program provides training in normal
(spoken and signed) and abnormal language, and in the neural bases of
language learning, use and loss.

Although this is a research Ph.D. program, doctoral students wishing to
obtain academic preparation for the Certificate of Clinical Competence in
Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association may do so concurrently with their doctoral studies.

GOALS:

To provide doctoral training in the study of language and communicative
behavior with an interdisciplinary focus that integrates state-of-the-art
knowledge from the fields of communicative disorders, cognitive sciences,
neurosciences, psychology and linguistics represented by the expertise of
core faculty from SDSU and UCSD.

To prepare professionals, educated in the interface between behavioral and
cognitive neuroscience methodologies, who will provide critical leadership
in research and health services.

To prepare Ph.D. level scientists in the field of language and communicative
disorders to serve as faculty in university programs and scientists in a
variety of settings to carry out much-needed research on the processes of
language development, disorders, assessment and intervention.

To prepare researchers to carry out much-needed research in communicative
behavior and disorders in bilingualism and multiculturalism.

Faculty of the doctoral program will be attending the Academy of Aphasia in
New York in October and ASHA in Atlanta in November.  Interested students
planning on attending these meetings are invited to contact us to arrange to
meet us.

For further information or to receive an application for Fall 2003, call,
email or write to:

SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, California 92182-1518

Telephone: (619) 594-6775
phdlancd at mail.sdsu.edu
www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chhs/cd/cd_degree_phd_general.html