CAA Accreditation

Promote excellence in preparing students to enter the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology

The Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) offers voluntary accreditation to graduate degree programs in audiology and in speech-language pathology housed within institutions of higher education. The CAA is the entity within ASHA that has the authority to establish and enforce a set of standards for the accreditation of graduate education programs in audiology and in speech-language pathology. The CAA has the authority to make accreditation decisions.

The CAA’s accreditation program is designed to:

  • Protect and inform the public by recognizing programs that meet or exceed accreditation standards
  • Stimulate improvement of programs’ educational activities by means of self-study and evaluation

For more than 50 years, the accreditation of entry-level graduate programs in the professions of audiology and speech-language pathology has been an essential catalyst for quality education through programmatic self-study and peer review.