WenJo Commemorative Event
Join us in Iowa City on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, as we celebrate and honor the lasting impact of the Wendell Johnson Speech & Hearing Center.
CSD Features
Meet CSD fourth-year undergraduate Maddie Sniadecki
Sniadecki, a fourth-year speech and hearing sciences student, leads a project in the Clinical Linguistics and Disparities lab and will return to the University of Iowa for the speech-language pathology (SLP) program next year.
CSD faculty and students conduct screenings for young children
Faculty and graduate students conducted speech, language, and hearing screenings for children in local preschools and daycares last month.
ASHA marks 100-year anniversary with visit to its hometown of Iowa City
Current and past members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) board of directors took part in a two-day visit. The visit featured a roundtable discussion and a professional development seminar.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Iowa audiology, speech-language pathology among the top in the nation
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is home to two top 5 graduate programs in the nation: #2 audiology and #5 speech-language pathology.
CSD students and faculty provide hearing screenings at Special Olympics event
Volunteers from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa provided hearing screenings to athletes as part of the Special Olympics Healthy Hearing initiative.
Meet the 2024-25 CSD distinguished alumna
Ida J. Stockman graduated from the University of Iowa in 1965 and is professor emerita in communication sciences and disorders at Michigan State University.
Why Iowa?
Hear from three students why they chose Communication Sciences and Disorders at Iowa.
News and Announcements
CSD speech-language pathology students train Johnson County Ambulance Service on alternative communication methods
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Clinical professor Krista Davidson and her graduate students in the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) community outreach group provide crucial information and training to first responders.
How CSD has shaped speech pathology and audiology
Monday, July 14, 2025
From a $50 lab investment to a century of global impact, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa helped launch a profession.
CSD alumna is a leader in pediatric audiology
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Mary Mills (60 BA, 69MA) developed the award-winning Knowledge Is Power program and has mentored future generations of audiologists.
2 nd
Ranked Audiology Program in the U.S.
(U.S. News and World Report, 2024)
5 th
Ranked Speech-Language Pathology Program in the U.S.
(U.S. News and World Report, 2024)