Communication Sciences & Disorders
Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.

Communication Sciences & Disorders
Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.

Communication Sciences & Disorders
Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.

Students performing sensory research.

Communication Sciences & Disorders
Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.

Communication Sciences & Disorders
Helping people communicate through world-class education, research, treatment, and outreach.

Scholarships and Awards

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders administers a number of scholarships and awards open to undergraduate majors and graduate students. Students may also be eligible for awards from state and national agencies.

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What Makes Us Special

Outstanding Education

Our faculty educate students to become clinicians, scientists, and teachers of the future. Our top-ranked programs offer a variety of didactic and hands-on educational opportunities.

Audiology tudents studying in a classroom.

Comprehensive and Affordable Clinical Care

Our faculty and staff run the UWSHC, which offers evaluation and treatment of communication disorders. UWSHC serves Wisconsin residents across the lifespan, and offers low-cost services and partial scholarships for individuals and families in need.

Student clinician working with a client.

Real-world Research

Our faculty perform cutting-edge research that has clear health relevance. Faculty have been issued patents, created spin-off companies, and developed technology that benefits people in Wisconsin and the nation.

Dr. Michelle Ciucci in the lab.

Community Outreach

Our faculty and students provide outreach services and consulting, often at no cost, to families, school systems, and other organizations in need.

Dane County Head Start participant receives a hearing screening from one of the graduate student clinicians.

News & Events

Department News

  • A W crest banner flutters in the wind on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during autumn on Oct. 18, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Miller /UW-Madison)

    Students Named Finalists for Biohealth Communications Competition

    Congratulations to Nimesha Didulani Dantanarayana, BSc, MSc, doctoral student in the Binaural Hearing and Speech Laboratory, and Mia Kroll, premed-focused biology undergraduate student and daughter of clinical professor Amy Kroll, on being selected as finalists …

  • A W crest banner flutters in the wind on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during autumn on Oct. 18, 2019. (Photo by Jeff Miller /UW-Madison)

    2023 Distinguished Early Career Professionals Awards

    Congratulations to CS&D doctoral students Michelle Bretl and Caitlyn Slawny on being selected as American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)’s 2023 Distinguished Early Career Professionals! The ECP Certificate is awarded to individuals in the fields of audiology …

  • Gracie Turner

    CSD Student Receives UW-Madison L&S Leadership Award

    Congratulations to CSD senior Gracie Turner, recipient of the 2023-24 Cyrena Pondrom Leadership Award. This leadership award is based on a leadership project proposal and awarded through the L&S Faculty Honors Committee. Professor Pondrom is …

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