Honors Thesis

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Option
The Communication Sciences and Disorders Department does not offer specific
sets of courses in the Honors College. What we can offer a student is the
opportunity to complete an honors thesis in their junior and senior years.
Completion of an undergraduate honors thesis allows a student to gain research
skills in the fields of speech, language, and hearing sciences.

Requirements
A student must have a GPA of 3.50 to pursue the Honors Thesis.

A student must complete two courses for honors credit in Communication
Sciences and Disorders. These courses are typically taken in the spring of a
student’s junior year. A student then completes a thesis under the guidance of a
mentor who is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders. The thesis is typically completed in a student’s senior year.

Recent Titles of Honors Theses

Williams, K. G. (projected, 2024). Understanding social participation in aphasia:
Surveying individual perspectives across WHO-ICF domains.
Betzer, L. (2023). Effectiveness of static versus dynamic language assessments.
Sanders, J. (2021). Listeners' perception of children and adult’s word-final /l/.
de Mahy, L. (2018). A vowel perceptual analysis of three regional dialects of
Louisiana.

Holley, A. (2017). Preschool alphabet and word learning: Are visual representations
beneficial?Accepted into the graduate program in COMD at LSU.
Dupre, B. (2017). Music and memory: Effects on language quantity and agitation in
people with dementia. Accepted into graduate school in COMD at the University of
Texas at Dallas.
Moore, A. (2017). Gender-related differences in child speakers’ use of
nonmainstream English dialect forms. Accepted into graduate school in COMD at
LSU.

Pinas, C. (2017). Can individualized music reduce agitation and increase
meaningful communication in dementia center clients? Accepted into graduate
school in Speech-Language Pathology at Rush University.
Ball, K. (2015). Grammatical morphology in a child with Autism. Accepted into
graduate school in COMD at LSU.