Western’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders is home to one of Canada’s largest graduate programs in the professions of audiology and of speech-language pathology. The School is housed in Elborn College, with excellent facilities for the academic, clinical, and research components of the program, including state of the art research laboratories, audiovisual and computer-based teaching laboratories, and the in-house H.A. Leeper Speech & Hearing Clinic.
The Leeper Clinic provides well-equipped facilities for the assessment, treatment, counselling and research of disorders. The clinical activities are supervised by full-time and part-time clinical faculty.
The School supports active research programs in key areas of both audiology and speech-language pathology, including adult neurological disorders, amplification systems, child language disorders, hearing science, fluency, speech production, spoken language processing, swallowing and vocal function. Researchers throughout the School are supported by grants from numerous national and specialty granting agencies.
Elborn College also houses the National Centre for Audiology (NCA), which undertakes basic and applied research relating to hearing and hearing disorders. Research at the NCA is undertaken by an interdisciplinary team including audiologists, computer specialists, engineers, hearing scientists, musicians,and speech scientists.
