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Honors Thesis

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Option
The Communication Sciences and Disorders Department does not offer specific
sets of courses in the Honors College. What we can offer a student is the
opportunity to complete an honors thesis in their junior and senior years.
Completion of an undergraduate honors thesis allows a student to gain research
skills in the fields of speech, language, and hearing sciences.

Requirements
A student must have a GPA of 3.50 to pursue the Honors Thesis.

A student must complete two courses for honors credit in Communication
Sciences and Disorders. These courses are typically taken in the spring of a
student’s junior year. A student then completes a thesis under the guidance of a
mentor who is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders. The thesis is typically completed in a student’s senior year.

Recent Titles of Honors Theses

Williams, K. G. (projected, 2024). Understanding social participation in aphasia:
Surveying individual perspectives across WHO-ICF domains.
Betzer, L. (2023). Effectiveness of static versus dynamic language assessments.
Sanders, J. (2021). Listeners' perception of children and adult’s word-final /l/.
de Mahy, L. (2018). A vowel perceptual analysis of three regional dialects of
Louisiana.

Holley, A. (2017). Preschool alphabet and word learning: Are visual representations
beneficial?Accepted into the graduate program in COMD at º£½ÇÉçÇø.
Dupre, B. (2017). Music and memory: Effects on language quantity and agitation in
people with dementia. Accepted into graduate school in COMD at the University of
Texas at Dallas.
Moore, A. (2017). Gender-related differences in child speakers’ use of
nonmainstream English dialect forms. Accepted into graduate school in COMD at
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Pinas, C. (2017). Can individualized music reduce agitation and increase
meaningful communication in dementia center clients? Accepted into graduate
school in Speech-Language Pathology at Rush University.
Ball, K. (2015). Grammatical morphology in a child with Autism. Accepted into
graduate school in COMD at º£½ÇÉçÇø.