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New Educational Roles in Language and Literacy

By Karen Guin

With support from a new $784,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, graduate students in communicative disorders can enroll in a new literacy-focused curriculum in school speech-language pathology, beginning in spring 2006.

This novel training experience, which includes courses in reading and writing and a school-based practicum and internship, will prepare students to obtain certification to practice in both school speech-language pathology and reading.

There is a state and national shortage of school speech-language pathologists, according to Wayne Secord, professor of communicative disorders and principal investigator for the grant.

"This new program will enable us to graduate hundreds of instructional leaders in the next few years to meet this urgent need," he said.

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