Curriculum

CNC-CT trainees are required to take TalkShop in both the Fall and Spring semesters, Clinical Connections Seminar in the Spring, and SICSFLAGS (Seminar in Career Skills For Life After Grad School) in the Spring.

COURSE INSTRUCTOR SEMESTER
PSYC 5500/LING 5010- Research Seminar in Language and Cognition (TalkShop), Mon 12:20-1:25PM, Arjona 105 William Snyder Spring 2025
Course Number TBD- Clinical Connections Seminar, Thur 1:00-2:30PM, Arjona 307 Inge-Marie Eigsti, Nicole Landi Spring 2025
Course Number TBD- SICSFLAGS, Thur 12:00-1:00PM, Arjona 307 Jennifer Mozeiko Spring 2025

Pre-Doctoral Trainee Requirements

Communication Training Clinical Population Research Career
Coursework 1. Elective in Neurobiology
2. Elective in Atypical Communication
3. Elective in Typical Communication		 4. Elective in Methods: ERP, MRI, TMS, ABR 5. Clinical Connections Proseminar (Y1) 6. Professional Development Seminar "SICSFLAGS" (Y1/Y2)
Research Second Year Project:
Trainee-led, mentored project addressing neurobiology of communication		 Project committee will direct trainee to informal (lab rotations) or formal (workshop training) in imaging methods using IDP May include recruitment of a population with a communication disorder Grant-writing training:
 Project proposal is in NRSA (F31/F32) format
Other Attend, Present at, and Organize:
Talk Shop (weekly communication science brown bag)
January-term workshops (community-organized)
BOLD Neuroimaging Methods Talk Series
Attend: SLHS, COGS, PSYC, LING colloquium series		 Clinical Connection IDP: Customized plan— observation hours, support group participation, mentorship from clinical faculty

IBACS Grant-Writing Workshop (projected: end of Y2)

Networking with advisory board members
Team Research Project

(choose 1)
  • Community-Based Research Team (Houston, faculty mentor)- Postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees will develop projects designed to take research into settings and to populations that are historically underserved. In developing these projects, mentors will guide trainees to consider community needs, cultural differences, and the goals of establishing buy-in and rapport with community partners.
  • Individual Differences Research Team (Rueckl, faculty mentor)- Trainees are invited to collaborate in ongoing efforts to understand the impact of individual traits and abilities on language and communication skills by joining the Modeling INdividual Differences (MIND) Battery project. The goal of this project is to develop and validate a set of tasks that are psychometrically suitable for measuring individual differences in communication.

Electives:

Please see the below examples of courses that can be used as Electives in each category. Course offerings may vary by year, and candidates can petition to use other courses from the PSYC and SLHS course catalogs to fulfill CNC-CT requirements.

Neurobiology/Cognitive Neuroscience

  • PSYC 5140- Foundations in Neuropsychology
  • PSYC 5424- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Across the Lifespan
  • PSYC 5425- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Atypical Communication

  • SLHS 5342- Aphasia
  • SLHS 5343- Cognitive-Communication Disorders
  • PSYC 5445- Neurobiology of Typical and Atypical Language Development
  • Courses on disorders of audition from the Audiology curriculum, including Pediatric Audiology, Cochlear Implants, Central Auditory Processing and Disorders, and Aural Rehabilitation

Typical Communication

  • PSYC 5568- Psychology of Language
  • SLHS 5362- Advanced Speech Science II
  • PSYC 5440- Development of Language
  • PSYC 5583- Sentence and Discourse Processing
  • PSYC 5514- The Mental Lexicon
  • EDCI 5715- Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition
  • PSYC 5424- Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Across the Lifespan
  • Other special topics courses routinely offered in PAC, LING, SLHS, and DEV every semester

 

Methods

  • PSYC 5570- Human Neuroimaging
  • SLHS 5322- Electrophysiology Techniques and Interpretation I
  • Independent Study on fNIRS at Haskins Laboratories 

Post-Doctoral Trainee Requirements

Communication Training Clinical Population Research Career
Coursework Audit coursework as appropriate to fill in training gaps.
Attend external workshops (e.g. fNIRS, MRI boot camp, TMS boot camp) for specialized/advanced training		 Each postdoc organizes a unit of the Clinical Connections Professional Development Seminar
Apply for Lessons for Success conference
Research Two-Year Research Project:
Trainee-led, mentored project, developed in the first year.  Trainees propose this project to their advisory committee at entry to the program, must involve methodological breadth (new analysis techniques or methodologies), must motivate the connection of question to clinical practice		 Mentorship training:
Postdocs assigned as content-area or methods experts to SYP teams
Other Attend, Present at, and Organize:
Talk Shop (weekly communication science brown bag)
January-term workshops (community-organized)
BOLD Neuroimaging Methods Talk Series Attend: SLHS, COGS, PSYC, LING colloquium series		 Clinical Connection IDP:
Customized plan— observation hours, support group participation, mentorship from clinical faculty		 IBACS Grant-Writing Workshop
(end of Y1) Networking with advisory board members
Team Research Project

(choose 1)
  • Community-Based Research Team (Houston, faculty mentor)- Postdoctoral and predoctoral trainees will develop projects designed to take research into settings and to populations that are historically underserved. In developing these projects, mentors will guide trainees to consider community needs, cultural differences, and the goals of establishing buy-in and rapport with community partners.
  • Individual Differences Research Team (Rueckl, faculty mentor)- Trainees are invited to collaborate in ongoing efforts to understand the impact of individual traits and abilities on language and communication skills by joining the Modeling INdividual Differences (MIND) Battery project. The goal of this project is to develop and validate a set of tasks that are psychometrically suitable for measuring individual differences in communication.