1 month ago
North Texas Daily
A substantial federal grant of over $1 million was recently awarded to fund Project Communicate, a master’s program for students planning to work in the fields of special education and speech-language pathology. “We hope to recruit excited and enthusiastic future special education teachers and speech-language pathologists.”The program was started by Boesch, an associate professor of special education, and Dr. Kat Aoyama, an associate professor of audiology and speech-language pathology. “The topics will include cultural linguistic diversity and complex communication needs in children.”The experience will differ slightly for special education majors and speech-language pathology majors. For example, SLP majors must enroll in the program full-time and finish earlier than most special education majors who will be enrolled part-time. “We plan to recruit students from underrepresented groups.”The program will admit 17 special education scholars and only five SLP scholars for the first two cohorts.
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