Campus Awareness of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota Duluth

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Campus Awareness of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota Duluth

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2015

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The field of speech-language pathology is growing tremendously in our world today due to the increasing demands of client's in need. Unfortunately, not many individuals know that the field exists or what exactly the field entails. Both independently and on interdisciplinary teams, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) work with many people in their careers from other fields of study. As part of the Communications Sciences and Disorders department here at the University of Minnesota Duluth, I sent a campus-wide survey to students to find out what knowledge they have about communicative disorders on a basic level. The purpose of this study was to measure the knowledge undergraduate and graduate students have at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) about communication disorders based on majors that involved the potential to work with an SLP in the future and those majors that did not. The data collected was intended to identify if students in allied majors were significantly more educated about communication disorders than those in non-allied majors. The survey was a series of 20 open-ended and multiple-choice questions that students took online via Qualtrics: Online Survey Software and Insight Platform. The responses were electronically compiled when the survey was submitted and remained anonymous. The results were analyzed on either an item-by-item frequency basis or a chi-squared analysis.

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University Honors Capstone Project, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2015.

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Cedergren, Kasandra. (2015). Campus Awareness of Communication Disorders at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/199771.

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