Accreditation Information
The Master of Arts in Speech Language Hearing Science (MA-SLH) education program at Temple University is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2200 Research Blvd. #310
Rockville, MD 20850
Member phone: 800-498-2071
National office: 301-296-5700
Accreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation of ASHA has been maintained without interruption since 1970. This program also has been approved in Speech-Language-Hearing by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
A complaint about the program may be submitted by any student, instructional staff member, speech-language pathologist, audiologist and/or member of the public to the CAA through the contact information listed above. For a complaint to be considered by the CAA, it must
- (a) be against an accredited education program or program in Candidacy status in speech-language pathology and/or audiology;
- (b) relate to the Standards for Accreditation of Graduate Education Programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, and specify where possible the relevant standards; and
- (c) include verification and documentation (e.g. copies of grievance processes, communications verifying completion of processes, etc.) if the complaint is from a student or faculty/instructional staff member at that institution that the complainant exhausted all relevant institutional grievance and review mechanisms before submitting a complaint to the CAA, if relevant to the complaint.
