Doctor of Audiology (AuD)
We offer the Doctor of Audiology (AuD), a professional degree for an audiologist. Our program is fully accredited and prepares audiologists for a career as independent practitioners skilled in providing diagnostic, rehabilitative, and other hearing services through diverse clinical experience.
Director of Graduate Admissions Committee
The Learning Environment
The AuD is a four-year graduate degree that focuses on preparing highly qualified specialists in audiology. The AuD program includes education in the basic sciences and disorders as well as practical experience with outstanding clinical training. The AuD curriculum includes courses dealing with the scientific bases of audiology including acoustics and instrumentation, anatomy and physiology of the auditory and nervous systems, and auditory and speech perception. Clinical coursework includes diagnostic audiology, pediatric audiology, central auditory processing disorders, industrial audiology, medical audiology, auditory evoked potentials, vestibular assessment, amplification and cochlear implants.
The Doctor of Audiology (AuD) education program in Audiology (residential) at the University at Buffalo is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), 2200 Research Boulevard, #310, Rockville, MD 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700.
- American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA)
- National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA)
- American Academy of Audiology(AAA)
- Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
- Student Academy of Audiology
- American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
- Audiology Online
- Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Guide to Deafness/Hard of Hearing
- National Institute on Deafness & Other Communicative Disorders (NIDCD)
- Self Help for the Hard of Hearing People