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Hi Jessica,
My name is Jayna, and I am a student at Washington University School of Medicine in my 2nd year of my AuD. I have a bilateral profound hearing loss as well, and benefited from power BTE's. I am going to be fitted with my cochlear implant this upcoming year, and the program has been extremely accommodating towards my hearing loss in terms of making sure that I have everything that I might need to excel.
I did my undergrad in Communications at University of California, San Diego, and had no undergraduate courses in Communication disorders. However, I had more than 5 years of volunteer and work experience in the field to enhance my application. I was accepted to every school I applied to and obtain scholarships as well.
I know that WASHU looks for diversity in their candidates, and strong science majors are encouraged to apply. Being that you have a bio field
background, I have no doubt that you will meet the science and math requirements.
Where ever you decide to go...make sure you are well coordinated with the disabilities office to obtain services if you rely on them.
U Mass has a student who has a bilateral profound loss as well. He relies on Starkey's new power CIC's.
Another program to consider on the East Coast would be University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. They have a fabulous program there as well.
Another great resource would be ASHA..American Speech Language Hearing Association. They have a link with all of the AuD accredited schools.
I wish you the best of luck on your journey to find a school that works best for you. If you have any other questions that I can help answer directly, you can email me at jaynaaltman@....
Jayna
jstarrynite13 <jessica.levine@...> wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jessica Levine and just recently joined this group. I have a
profound bilateral hearing loss and I benefit from a cochlear implant. I just
graduated from Tufts University in May and currently taking a year off to work
and apply to graduate AuD programs. Tufts did not offer any communication
disorders or audiology courses and I double majored in Biopsychology
(neuroscience) and Biomedical Engineering. During my senior year, I have
decided that i wanted to become an Audiologist.
I was wondering if any of you are familiar with the graduate programs
primarily on the north east coast. I am looking at schools in Mass, New York,
Maryland, and the Washington DC area. I prefer going to a school that's near
a city/metro area. Since the majority of the top/best AuD programs are in the
midwest, i'm choosing to stay on the east coast for personal reasons. I'd
appreciate any feedback about these programs and whether they'll be
accomodating about my hearing loss, the quality of their programs, and any
other advice for the application process. I wont have all of the pre-requisites
finished by the time I apply but I am going to try convincing some of the
schoosl to let me finish the pre-requisites the summer before starting school
or during the school year. I've heard that some programs wont even accept
some of the pre-requisites, I can't afford to re-take some of the classes if they
wouldnt accept them.
I'm interested looking at U Mass at Amherst, City College of New York, the
Long Island Consortium, University of Maryland, and Gallaudet University. I
am also going to apply to Washington University in St. Louis and
Northwestern University just to see if I can get in.
If you have any other advise, especially for those who had a non-
communications disorders background while undergrad, would be helpful.
Sometimes i feel like im walking through the application process blindly.
Thanks a bunch!
Jess
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