On May 23, 2008 a meeting was adjourned to address solutions to the
shortage of speech-language pathologists in Arizona’s schools. The meeting was hosted by
the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State
University, in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Education,
Division of Exceptional Services, and was held at ASU's innovative, state-of-the-art
Decision Theater. All major stakeholders, including special education
directors, Arizona certification and licensing agencies, state
lawmakers, school district representatives, the University of Arizona,
Northern Arizona University, the Arizona Department of Education, the
Arizona Speech-Language-Hearing Association, parent representatives, and
the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association were present to review
data and to develop a plan to address the problem.
Below are the documents that represent the product of the meeting. Brief descriptions
of each document follow the download links.
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Documents
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 Summary Report of the May 23, 2008 meeting
- ASHA Presentation
Janet Deppe, Director State Advocacy with the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association compiled this handout with
information regarding the shortage of SLPs, challenges to meeting that
shortage, and solutions being implemented by a variety of states across
the country.
- ADE Certification History for SLP
This document put together by Laurie Flitner describes the changes in
certification requirements for SLP working in the schools over the past
30 years. The challenges that we face now have been around for awhile!
- ADE Certification Highlights pre- and post-January 2007
This chart highlights changes in Arizona Department of Education certification requirements for SLPs before and after January 1, 2007.
- SLPA Information
Information gathered by Amy Heck to identify the issues in training, supervision and use of speech-language pathology assistants in Arizona schools.
- SLT Certificate Recommendations 2005
This document outlines the suggestions for requirements for
certification of Speech Language Technicians (SLT) recommended by a
committee to the Arizona Department of Education in September 2005. The
restrictions in scope of practice and requirements for supervision of
SLTs were not adopted by the ADE in the end.
- Workforce Update SLP 2006
This report by ASHA outlines the national and state-level demand projections for SLPs.
- ASHA Guidelines SLA
- ASHA Supervision SLA
- SLPA KS2002 ASHA
These documents describe the American Speech-Language and Hearing Associations guidelines for training, use and supervision of speech-language pathology assistants.
- Ohio Addresses Shortage
This article appeared in the ASHA Leader (May 2008) and describes the strategies and solutions Ohio has developed to address the shortage of SLPs in the public schools in Arizona.
- SLP shortage LSHSS 2007
This study addressed the issues regarding recruitment and retention of speech-language pathologist in public school settings.
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