JABSOM requesting CSD program `stop out`

The University of Hawai`i Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders undergraduate program could be silenced because of budget constraints, according to a John A. Burns School of Medicine press release.

JABSOM will file a request for a “stop out” of any new admisssions into the CSD undergraduate program to UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw.

The UH Mānoa two-year CSD master`s program, which students are required to complete before becoming a licensed speech therapist, will carry on. There is no prerequisite that requires CSD graduate students to have a bachelor`s degree in CSD to be admitted into the master`s program.

JABSOM has made efforts to assure that the 36 undergraduate students in the CSD program will be able to continue in the program. Accelerated courses will be offered to the CSD undergraduate students to allow them to graduate early.

The CSD program, formerly called speech pathology, trains and prepares students to become licensed speech therapists, who help people with speech disabilities.

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