The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) offers a two-year, six-semester program of study to prepare graduate students to meet national certification standards for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and complete their clinical fellowship to enter into independent practice as speech-language pathologists. The CSD graduate program is essential in filling critical personnel shortages to serve individuals, infants to adults, with speech, language, cognitive, feeding/swallowing, hearing, and related disorders.

The Master of Science (M.S.) education program in speech-language pathology (residential) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2200 Research Boulevard, #310, Rockville, MD 20850, 800-498-2071 or 301-296-5700.