CAPCSD Scholarships, Grant, and Funding Resources
CAPCSD is committed to advancing education, research, clinical training, and academic leadership in communication sciences and disorders. Through scholarships for students and grant opportunities for faculty, CAPCSD supports the development of future professionals, researchers, and educators across member programs.
CAPCSD has distributed over $1 million dollars in scholarship support.
Scholarship and grant applications for 2027 are now open and will close on October 26, 2026.
Applications are available to students and faculty from CAPCSD member programs with memberships paid in full no later than September 15, 2026.
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 and the IVS Clinical Education Seed Grants.
Faculty Grants
IVS Clinical Education Seed Grant
CAPCSD is pleased to continue its partnership with Intelligent Video Solutions (IVS) in supporting scholarship in clinical education. Through IVS's generous support, CAPCSD will award two faculty seed grants of $5,000 each to advance scholarship in evidence-based clinical education in speech, language, and hearing sciences. These awards are intended to increase our understanding and implementation of evidence-based clinical teaching approaches or general clinical education pedagogies that meet the needs of our increasingly diverse student body.
Student Scholarships and Resources
Student Resources
We encourage graduate students to explore additional resources for scholarships, grants, and fellowships.
PhD Student Positions
Ph.D. students are invited to search doctoral programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders that are recruiting students.
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, 2026 and will not defend their dissertation earlier than January 1, 2027. 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 in SLP / AuD-level award: This award is intended for master’s in SLP or AuD-level students who are conducting clinical research in speech-language pathology or audiology.
One (1) Ph.D.-level award: This award is intended for Ph.D. students who are conducting research in audiology, speech-language pathology, or speech-language-hearing sciences.