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XAVIER BOARD OF TRUSTEES GREENLIGHTS SPEECH PATHOLOGY GRADUATE PROGRAM Master’s in Speech Pathology Planned for 2018 his February, the Xavier University Board of Trustees approved a Master of Science degree in Speech Pathology. This move followed a two-year feasibility study by Xavier’s Department of Speech Pathology to determine if there was a need for this type of graduate program. Dr. Nancy Martino, who is leading the graduate program’s development, says that in addition to addressing Xavier’s mission by preparing leaders in the field, Xavier’s program will respond to increased nationwide demand for speech-language pathologists. Speech-language specialists are needed due to a growing number of communication and swallowing related conditions affecting the large, aging baby boomer population. Speech-language pathologists are also in demand in the prekindergarten population with children who have communication disorders related to language-based literacy skills. In addition, there is a nationwide shortage of speech-language pathologists from underrepresented backgrounds. Xavier is the perfect setting for increasing clinically competent speech-language pathologists of color, due to its undergraduate Speech Pathology program’s long history of working with children from minority groups. Dr. Martino noted that for DSBS SPEND A DAY EVENT In March, the Division of Social the past thirty years, & Behavioral Sciences hosted high school students from Xavier’s program has across the New Orleans metropolitan area to experience a trained Xavier studay in the life of a DSBS major of their choice. Students dents who have had dined with a major in the U.C., attended classes, and clinical experiences in the New Orleans chatted with faculty to learn more about their major. public schools, Headstart centers and the local Veteran’s Administration Hospital. Approval from the Board is the first step in a two-and-a-half year process of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Colleges and the American Speech Language Hearing WELCOME! DSBS welcomes new Mass Association. The first Communication Department Head, cohort of students is Dr. Tia Smith. Dr. Smith comes to expected to enroll in XULA from the University of the the fall of 2018. West Indies.
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