Accreditation Information
The Master of Arts in Speech, Language and Hearing Science 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.
