Welcome to the web site for the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. We are the first degree-granting program at a historically Black University in the United States and we are one of five accredited Master's degree programs in the State of Virginia.

A big “Thank-you” to everyone who played a role in our re-accreditation site visit. We could not have completed the process without you.

The faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders.

'The Department' Up Close

The department is proud to boast of its student and faculty accomplishments.

Students Valerie McDowell, Shelly Redd, Shaun Barrett-Vigilance, Marisa White, and Adrianne Larke are among recent students selected to participate in ASHA's Minority Student Leadership Program. This program, established in 1999, provides a forum for racial/ethnic minority students to gain insight into the association's operation and to develop leadership skills via exposure and interaction with leaders in the professions of audiology; speech-language pathology; and speech, language and hearing science.(Photo courtesy of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.)

Chairman, Dr. Robert Martin Screen, was awarded Honors of the Association in 2001 by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for distinguished contributions to the field of Speech-Language Pathology.

Dr. Dorian Lee-Wilkerson, Associate Professor, was the recipient of the Certificate of Recognition for Contribution in Higher Education awarded for the first time in 2004 by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Wilkerson and her colleague, Dr. Shelly S. Chabon of Rockhurst University teach students collaboratively via an on-line course “Dialogues in Diversity.”