The Department stresses a rich intellectual life fostered through interdisciplinary studies and encourages faculty and students to pursue interdisciplinary opportunities for course work, research, and laboratory experience in allied departments and programs. Joint faculty appointments between communication sciences and disorders and other related departments are common. Attending frequent colloquia featuring Northwestern faculty and other national and international scientists from a variety of disciplines is part of academic life at Northwestern. Presently, both faculty and students are involved in interdisciplinary programs in:

• Center for Translational Imaging (MRI center)
• Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
• Cognitive Neurology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Cognitive Science
• Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci)
• Institute for Neuroscience
• Institute on Complex Systems
• Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center
• Northwestern Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
• NUCASLL Clinic