The Davies School excels in teaching, research and clinical practice for speech-language pathology and deaf and hard of hearing habilitation.
For over 70 years, it has offered innovative services for individuals with communication difficulties, featuring one of the first bilingual speech-language pathology training programs nationally and emphasizing multicultural and cross-cultural instruction and research.
Why the Davies School?
Undergraduate & Graduate Programs
Undergraduate
Learn to evaluate, diagnose and treat individuals with alternative communication styles.
Graduate
Elevate your career in communication sciences and disorders.
Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic
The Miller Speech & Hearing Clinic is an outpatient community clinic located on the TCU campus, serving as a learning laboratory for students and faculty in the Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders. The clinic offers superior clinical services to individuals of all ages with speech, language, hearing or swallowing problems in the Fort Worth community, the larger DFW metroplex and surrounding areas.
Research & Outreach
As teacher-scholars, our Davies School faculty are engaged in research to better understand and treat communication and language disorders.
Announcements
Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Two COSD Professors Receive NIH Grant to Continue Research in Bilingual Speech-Language Pathology
What started as a doctoral dissertation nearly a decade ago has now evolved into a federally funded reearch project to bridge the gap in bilingual speech-language pathology and vocabulary development for young children. (continue reading)
Recent Publications
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Derivational morphology performance of children who are deaf and hard of hearing who use cochlear implants or hearing aids.
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2025_AJSLP-25-00115
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Taxonomic knowledge in children with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities who use augmentative and alternative communication.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106579
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The effect of language sample elicitation context on complex syntax use and productivity in preschool-age children who are deaf and hard of hearing
https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00240
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Dialogic reading strategies and vocabulary in Spanish-speaking students with developmental language disorder: A single-case research study.
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2025_LSHSS-25-00004