Communication Sciences & Disorders (Non-Thesis): Speech-Language Pathology (M.Sc.A.) (82 credits)
Offered by: Commun Sciences & Disorders (Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 82
Program Description
The M.Sc.(A.) in Communication Sciences and Disorders; Non-Thesis - Speech-Language Pathology focuses on training students to enter the field of Speech-Language Pathology using a curriculum guided by a competency-based framework, including academic and supervised clinical practicum components. This professional program is accredited by The Council for Accreditation of Canadian University Programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (82 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| IPEA 500 | Roles in Interprofessional Teams. | 0 |
Roles in Interprofessional Teams. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A half day workshop, including preparatory work, that introduces interprofessional education, interprofessional practice, and the roles of the different healthcare professionals that make up an interprofessional team. | ||
| IPEA 501 | Communication in Interprofessional Teams. | 0 |
Communication in Interprofessional Teams. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A half day workshop, including preparatory work, introducing effective communication and interactions in interprofessional teams. | ||
| IPEA 502 | Partnership in Interprofessional Teams | 0 |
Partnership in Interprofessional Teams Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A half day activity, including preparatory work, introducing students to a simulated patient/family centred care scenario in which they will be working in interprofessional teams to develop a plan of care. | ||
| SCSD 609 | Neuromotor Disorders. | 3 |
Neuromotor Disorders. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The focus of this course will be on the assessment and management of motor speech disorders, associated with both acquired and developmental neuromotor disorders, and swallowing disorders (of both neuromotor and structural origin). | ||
| SCSD 611D1 | Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 1. | 0.5 |
Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Practice and assessment of transverse competencies for the spring speech-language pathology practicum. Professional activities include simultaneous demonstration of multiple professional roles, especially expert, communicator, collaborator, advocate, scholar and professional. | ||
| SCSD 611D2 | Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 1. | 0.5 |
Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 1. Terms offered: Winter 2026 See SCSD 611D1 for course description. | ||
| SCSD 612D1 | Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 2. | 0.5 |
Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 2. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Practice and assessment of transverse competencies required for entry-to-practice as a speech-language pathologist. Professional activities include simultaneous demonstration of multiple professional roles, especially expert, communicator, collaborator, advocate, scholar and professional. | ||
| SCSD 612D2 | Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 2. | 0.5 |
Essential Competencies for Speech-Language Pathology 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 See SCSD 612D1 for course description. | ||
| SCSD 613 | Counselling in Speech-Language Pathology. | 1 |
Counselling in Speech-Language Pathology. Terms offered: Fall 2025 A practical approach to basic and advanced counselling for the speech-language pathology context, with topics as follows: counseling of persons with communication and swallowing disorders, families of children with disabilities, clients who are expected to improve or deteriorate and their families. Strategies to deal with the management of special events that may arise during the treatment process including counselling issues in death and dying. | ||
| SCSD 614 | Literacy Across the Lifespan. | 3 |
Literacy Across the Lifespan. Terms offered: Winter 2026 A clinically oriented review of typical reading development and processing followed by speech-language pathology practice for individuals with developmental reading disorders and acquired reading and writing disorders. | ||
| SCSD 616 | Foundations of Audiology. | 3 |
Foundations of Audiology. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Foundations of clinical audiology including acoustics as it relates to audition and hearing loss; the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, demographics and prevalence of hearing loss; common diagnostic goals and procedures of clinical audiology and standard avenues of intervention. Concepts of proper administration,interpretation, and application of information obtained in a basic audiologic evaluation emphasizing the role of the speech language pathologist in hearing loss prevention. | ||
| SCSD 617 | Anatomy and Physiology for Speech-Language Pathology. | 1 |
Anatomy and Physiology for Speech-Language Pathology. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The anatomy and physiology of structures and mechanisms essential to speech production, specifically the respiratory system (respiratory tract, chest wall, diaphragm, and abdominal wall) and the articulatory, phonatory, and resonatory systems (larynx, pharynx, mouth, and nose). | ||
| SCSD 619 | Phonological Development. | 3 |
Phonological Development. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Theories and research related to normal and abnormal phonological development in children will be studied. | ||
| SCSD 624 | Language Development and Processes. | 3 |
Language Development and Processes. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Typical language development across the lifespan, progressing from the building blocks of speech perception to conversation and narrative production. The role of input,individual differences in acquisition, and language socialization. Skilled perception, processing and production of these aspects of language in adulthood. | ||
| SCSD 625 | ASD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2. | 2 |
ASD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An overview of the broad range of clinical presentations observed in people on the autism spectrum from early childhood through adulthood, and on social communication and language assessment and intervention for this population. | ||
| SCSD 626 | Aural Rehabilitation 2. | 2 |
Aural Rehabilitation 2. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The effects of hearing impairment in adults as well as in the developing child with attention to problems in speech, language, and cognitive function as well as social-emotional adjustment. Examination of various intervention approaches. | ||
| SCSD 627 | Practicum and Seminar 3A. | 3 |
Practicum and Seminar 3A. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Various aspects of clinical training. Practice of multiple clinical roles at the advanced beginner level at practicum sites involving pediatric or adult clients. | ||
| SCSD 628 | Practicum and Seminar 4A. | 3 |
Practicum and Seminar 4A. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Various aspects of clinical training. Practice of multiple clinical roles at the advanced beginner level at practicum sites involving pediatric or adult clients. | ||
| SCSD 629 | Augmentative and Alternative Communication 2. | 2 |
Augmentative and Alternative Communication 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Planning intervention with clients who would benefit from Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) approaches. Key concepts related to characteristics and potential AAC users, components of AAC systems and strategies, assessment, and intervention. | ||
| SCSD 630 | Research and Measurement Methodologies 2. | 2 |
Research and Measurement Methodologies 2. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Introduction to methodologies used in research and measurement in the field of communication sciences and disorders. Topics include: the nature and interpretation of test norms; validity; interpretation of test score differences; and questionnaire development (scaling). Examination of tests currently used in speech-language pathology and audiology. | ||
| SCSD 631 | Speech Science. | 2 |
Speech Science. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The acoustic analysis and perception of speech and related pathologies will be presented. Theories and models of speech production, speech motor control, and speech perception will be considered. | ||
| SCSD 632 | Phonological Disorders: Children. | 3 |
Phonological Disorders: Children. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The nature of phonological disorders and clinical approaches for their remediation in children will be presented. | ||
| SCSD 636 | Fluency Disorders. | 3 |
Fluency Disorders. Terms offered: Winter 2026 The nature of stuttering, various causal theories, and techniques for evaluation and treatment of children and adults will be presented. | ||
| SCSD 637 | Developmental Language Disorders 1. | 3 |
Developmental Language Disorders 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 The nature of developmental language disorders and the assessment of language competence and performance in both speaking and non-speaking children will be studied. | ||
| SCSD 638 | Neurolinguistics. | 2 |
Neurolinguistics. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Current theories of language- brain relationships and speech and language deficits subsequent to brain damage will be studied. A review of current research on phonetic, lexical, and syntactic processing in brain-damaged individuals is included. | ||
| SCSD 639 | Voice Disorders. | 3 |
Voice Disorders. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Information about the vocal mechanism, its pathologies, and methods of evaluation and treatment will be studied. | ||
| SCSD 643 | Developmental Language Disorders 2. | 3 |
Developmental Language Disorders 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Major theories of language disorders are translated into intervention principles used in language treatment programs. Adaptations of intervention techniques to suit specific disorders (including augmentative communication) will be explored. | ||
| SCSD 644 | Acquired Language Disorders. | 3 |
Acquired Language Disorders. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Theoretical and clinical issues as well as principles relevant to the assessment and treatment of adults with acquired neurogenic language and cognitive-communication disorders (aphasia, right-hemisphere damage, dementia and traumatic brain injury). | ||
| SCSD 646 | Introductory Clinical Practicum. | 4 |
Introductory Clinical Practicum. Terms offered: Summer 2025 This course provides an introduction to professional practice through intensive exposure to a variety of clinical populations. | ||
| SCSD 679 | Advanced Clinical Practicum. | 12 |
Advanced Clinical Practicum. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025 This course enhances professional practice independence through intensive exposure to a variety of clinical populations. | ||
| SCSD 680 | Deglutition and Dysphagia. | 3 |
Deglutition and Dysphagia. Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026 Advanced physiology and neurophysiology of mastication and deglutition, including normal function and diagnosis and treatment of swallowing disorders. | ||
| SCSD 681 | Practicum and Seminar 1. | 3 |
Practicum and Seminar 1. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Various aspects of clinical training, including practice of multiple clinical roles at the novice level. Practicum involves pediatric or adult clients. | ||
| SCSD 682 | Practicum and Seminar 2. | 3 |
Practicum and Seminar 2. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Various aspects of clinical training, including practicing multiple clinical roles at the novice level. The practicum involves pediatric or adult clients. | ||
| SCSD 688 | Genetics in Speech-Language Pathology Practice. | 1 |
Genetics in Speech-Language Pathology Practice. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Normal human genetics and embryological development, their relationship to congenital disorders that affect communication and swallowing, and implications for speech-language pathology practice. | ||
| SCSD 689 | Management Cranio-Facial Disorders. | 1 |
Management Cranio-Facial Disorders. Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 Cranio-facial disorders and the role of the speech-language pathologist in the clinical management of patients with these disorders in relation to the roles of other members of the cranio-facial team. | ||