Most students begin their studies with an expectation
that they will graduate and become practicing
clinical speech-language pathologists. Along
the road to graduation a few students discover
that they have an interest in and an aptitude
for research. They are intrigued by questions
that remain unanswered.
Could research be the right career path?
The best way to know is to try it out. This
opportunity to engage in thesis research
can help students decide if they are indeed
interested in pursuing a career as a researcher
and a university professor. Also, after
completing a thesis, students often comment
on how the process helped them truly integrate
information from across many different courses
and clinical experiences.
Each year, one or two students elect to
work a master’s thesis. Thesis students,
under the direction of a faculty thesis
advisor, develop and design a research project,
collect, analyze and interpret data, and
write a formal thesis document. This work
is in addition to the regular academic and
clinical curricula required of all students
in the program. The department has limited
funding available to support student thesis
research.
Check out the SLP Master's theses that were
developed by SLP students in the past few
years. Note that beginning in 2003 theses
at Duquesne University are submitted and
available electronically.
Buchheit, Christine
L. (2003). A
Follow-up Study of College Students with
a History of a Developmental Speech Disorder.
Martonik, Jennifer L.(2002). A
remediation strategy for dichotic listening
deficits.
Craig, Jonelle M. (2001). Diagnosing
Stuttering: An examination of inter-method
agreement .
Kirchner, Tiffani A. (2001). Do
the communicative acts performed by children
with autism in a classroom setting vary
when peers with typical development are
participating in the class?
Reynolds, Sonya L. (2001). Earobics,
auditory memory, and children with hearing
impairments: two case studies.
Anderson, Tracy K. (2000). A qualitative
analysis of late recovery from stuttering.
Reilly, Jill A. (2000). The contribution
of gesticulations to the communication of
children.
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