Universities are creating more flexible and distance learning opportunities to train SLPs. Some examples include:
Florida Professional Development Partnership
Contact Dr. Howard Goldstein at howard.goldstein@comm.fsu.edu
LaSalle University, in Philadelphia, PA, developed a program for career changers who are fully employed. The program offers the complete prerequisite speech-language pathology course work online. Contact Barbara Amster at amster@lasalle.edu.
Longwood College, in Farmville, VA.
Contact Lissa Power-DeFur at powerdefurea@longwood.edu.
Loyola University, in Baltimore, MD, offers distance education and foundation course work for career changers.
Upstate New York Speech-Language Pathology Consortium: The UPSTATE Speech-Language Pathology Consortium is composed of eleven academic programs in the upstate region of New York State. The cohort programs include Buffalo State College, SUNY College at Fredonia, Nazareth College, SUNY at Buffalo, SUNY College at Geneseo, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, SUNY College at Cortland, College of Saint Rose, SUNY College at Plattsburgh, and SUNY College at New Paltz. The consortium is funded by The State Education Department Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities (VESID). The purpose of the grant is to increase the number of professional speech-language pathologists working in public education and to this end the grant has four goals:
- increase the number of students in cohort graduate programs,
- encourage graduate students to commit to a career in public education through scholarship incentive,
- present speech-language pathology, audiology, and speech and hearing science career options to high school students and junior college students, and
- present content based graduate courses through distance learning.
Funding for the grant is planned through the 2009-2010 academic year. For further information about the grant or if you have specific questions please contact either Gary Jones, PI, jonesgw@buffalostate.eud, Dennis Perez, Co-PI, perez@fredonia.edu, or Karen Bailey-Jones, Co-PI, joneskb@buffalostate.edu.
North Carolina Distance Education Consortium
Contact: Dr. William Barber at barberwd@appstate.edu
St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL, developed a program to increase the number of bilingual SLPs in school settings.
Contact Michael Flahive at flahive@sxu.edu
Texas Women's University Distance Program: Texas Education Technical Network
Contact: Dr. Allan Bird at akbird@comcast.net
University of Cincinnati Doctoral Education Program
Contact: Dr. Nancy Craighead at nancy.creaghead@uc.edu.
Distance Learning Consortia
Also see ASHA's list of graduate programs offering distance courses/degrees.