Project EPICS: Educating Pacific Island Clinicians in Speech-Language Pathology

2021

Project EPICS is a 5 year grant funded from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). This project is designed to work collaboratively with the University of Guam CEDDERS and San Jose State University (SJSU), California to provide the opportunity for up 20 speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate students representing a variety of islands in the Pacific, including Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, American Samoa, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The $1.25 million grant is a five-year graduate program leading to a master's degree that will use effective and scientifically-based curricula and pedagogy to prepare personnel who will: 1. Improve outcomes for students with disabilities and; 2. foster appropriate access to and achievement in the general education curricula. Courses will be delivered through a combination of on-line and on-site classes.

Speech and Language Pathology

Training Trainees

Education & Early Intervention, Health-Related Activities

Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Territory

State, Regional

Federal

N/A