Nontraditional strategies for graduate student recruitment, training, and placement were developed in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Mississippi, in an attempt to meet speech-language personnel shortages in northern Mississippi rural schools and to upgrade the existing services professionally. The project was designed to allow the candidates to provide school speech-language services in the project area simultaneously with their graduate training. This was facilitated through cooperative liaisons with various university departments and state educational agencies, and through the use of adapted curriculum planning and media-based methods of instruction.
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