Released:5/21/04
From June 21-25, Marquette University will hold its second annual
“Summer Speech Pathology Program for Youth” (SSPPY). The five-day
event will educate Spanish-speaking students in grades 8-12 about
the possibilities of a career as a bilingual speech-language pathologist
(SLP).
SSPPY participants will get a first-hand look at the exciting
career of an SLP as they observe them on the job in hospitals,
schools and clinics. The students will also get to know Marquette
's campus, including the Speech Pathology and Audiology clinic.
There is no cost to attend the SSPPY. All participants receive
classroom supplies, daily lunch, transportation to and from site
visits and a 30-dollar gift certificate to the Golden Eagle Spirit
Shop.
Interested students can sign up for this summer's program by contacting
Wendy Krueger at (414) 288-3137.
“It was extremely helpful for me,” says Ninsa Martin, a Speech
Pathology and Audiology sophomore who participated in the program
last summer. “Even though I had already decided to pursue speech
pathology as a major, the program helped assure me that I had
made the right decision.”
Marquette has been a leader in offering greater opportunities
for Spanish-speaking students to break into the speech pathology
field. Two years ago, the university responded to the need for
more certified bilingual SLPs by creating a new Bilingual English-Spanish
Certificate program.
In recent years, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
has expressed a nation-wide need for more certified bilingual
speech-language pathologists. The ASLHA has called on university
programs to seek ways to educate a greater number of certified
bilingual SLPs.
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