CAPCSD Scholarships
Student Resources
PhD Student Positions
CAPCSD has a long history of supporting student education through the scholarship program. The scholarships target both prospective professionals and academics in audiology, speech-language pathology, and hearing/speech/language science. CAPCSD has distributed over $1 million dollars of scholarship support.
We encourage graduate students to explore additional resources for scholarships, grants, and fellowships.
Ph.D. students are invited to search doctoral programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders that are recruiting students.
Scholarship application are open and will close on October 16, 2024.
*The PhD Scholarship deadline has been extended until November 4, 2024.*
Recipients will be announced by April 2025.
The 2025 scholarship program is open to graduate students from CAPCSD member programs that have a membership paid in full no later than September 15, 2024.
Member institutions may nominate only one graduate student applicant for the PhD Scholarship and Frances J. Laven Scholarship. Programs with multiple potential applicants should devise their own internal review process to select the applicant. The selected student will submit the application.
Multiple applicants from member programs will be considered for the Plural Publishing Research Scholarships.
Frances J. Laven Scholarship
As co-owner of CAPCSD's first management company, Frances Laven was instrumental in organizing the Council's administrative and procedural foundations, beginning in 1989. From 2002 to 2013, Ms. Laven served as the Executive Director for CAPCSD and facilitated the growth of the Council and its many activities. As her duties continued to expand, she met her responsibilities with poise and an openness to the development of CAPCSD and its member programs. Her leadership exemplified outstanding service to both CAPCSD and the discipline of communication sciences and disorders. All who came into contact with her, particularly Board members, became enamored with her personal yet professional style in handling all CAPCSD issues, big or small.
The Frances J. Laven award was initiated in 2014 when Ms. Laven retired from her position with CAPCSD. Service was the focus of the award to reflect her tireless efforts in forwarding the efforts of CAPCSD and the discipline.
In honor of Frances Laven, CAPCSD is funding up to ten (10) student scholarships to recognize exemplary student service.
PhD Scholarships
CAPCSD is committed to addressing the PhD shortage in communication sciences and disorders and offers this scholarship program for students pursuing a PhD and who are committed to an academic career in communication sciences and disorders. These scholarships support PhD students in the dissertation phase of their doctoral program and applicants must intend to pursue an academic career in CSD. Funds may be used to support dissertation expenses and/or the applicant’s personal expenses incurred while completing the dissertation. The mentor's letter of support should confirm that the applicant will have passed to the candidacy stage (all but dissertation (ABD) requirements completed) by June 15, 2025 and will not defend their dissertation earlier than January 1, 2026. CAPCSD will fund up to ten (10) scholarships of $12,000 each for successful scholarship awardees.
Plural Publishing Research Scholarships
CAPCSD promotes research by students in communication sciences and disorders. In support of this goal, Plural Publishing has generously agreed to fund two (2) scholarship awards to support graduate student research.
One (1) master’s/AuD-level scholarship is intended for master’s/AuD-level students who are conducting research in speech-language pathology or audiology.
One (1) doctoral-level scholarship is intended for PhD students who are conducting research in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech-language-hearing sciences.
Congratulations to Our Past Scholarship Recipients!