This document summarizes statistics from the Arizona Department of Education State Personnel Development Grant regarding their efforts to increase the number of speech language pathologists with master's degrees working in Arizona schools from 2008-2012. It shows the number of residents and non-residents admitted and graduated each year. It also provides examples of success stories of students who participated in the program.

1. Department of
Communicative Sciences
and Disorders
Arizona Department of Education
State Personnel Development Grant
Five Year Celebration

2. Increasing the number of highly-
qualified, Master’s degree-level
Speech-language Pathologists
working in Arizona schools...

3. 2008 Summer Track
Non-Residents (7) AZ Residents (27)
40
30 TOTAL ADMITTED
34 STUDENTS
20
10
0
2008 Admitted Students: 34

4. 2008 Summer Track
TOTAL GRADUATED
41 STUDENTS
Entering class of 2004

5. 2009 Summer Track
Non-Residents (7) AZ Residents (20)
30
23
TOTAL ADMITTED
15 27 STUDENTS
8
0
2009 Summer Admitted Students: 27

6. 2009 Summer Track
TOTAL GRADUATED
30 STUDENTS
Entering class of 2005

7. 2010 Summer Track

8. Increasing cultural and linguistic
diversity...

9. 2010 Summer Track
Ethnic/Disability Diversity
Non-Residents (20) AZ Residents (18) Other Students
40
30 28%
20
10
72%
0
Summer 2010 Admitted Students: 38

10. 2010 Summer Track
TOTAL GRADUATED TOTAL AZ RESIDENTS
16 STUDENTS GRADUATED
9 STUDENTS
Entering class of 2006

11. 2011 Summer Track
Cohort 1

12. 2011 Summer Track
Cohort 2

13. 2011 Summer Track
Ethnic/Disability Diversity
AZ Residents (36) Non Residents (25) Other Students
70
8%
53
35
18
0
Summer 2011 Admitted Students: 61
92%

14. 2011 Summer Track
Entering class of 2006
Non-Residents AZ Residents
TOTAL GRADUATED
37
35%
65%
TOTAL AZ RESIDENTS
GRADUATED
24

15. 2012 Summer Track

16. Summer 2012
Ethnic/Disability Diversity
AZ Residents (20) Non Residents (16) Other Students
40
30 20%
20
10
0 80%
Summer 2012 Admitted Students: 36

17. 2012 Summer Track
Entering class of 2007
Non-Residents Arizona Residents
TOTAL GRADUATED
29
17%
TOTAL AZ RESIDENTS
GRADUATED 83%
24

18. Workshops and Special Talks...

19. Workshops and Special Talks
2011
• Workshop: Looking Through the Leadership Lens! Charting a Course
for Clinical Excellence; Wayne Secord & Mike Towey. (Appendix E)
• Total Participants: 109
• 80 students
• 29 supervisors or other professionals
• Special Talk: Assessment and Treatment of Phonological Disorders in
Bilingual Populations; Dr. Leah Fabiano-Smith (Appendix N) (July 25th,
2011)
• Total Participants: 126

20. Workshops and Special Talks
2012
• Workshop: Pathways to Excellence in Language and Literacy: A
Multiple Top-10 Approach; Wayne Secord. (Appendix E)
• Total Participants: 81
• 42 students
• 35 supervisors or other professionals
• 4 faculty
• Special Talk: Telepractice; Michael Towey (July 5th, 2012)
• Total Participants: 20

21. Trending results...

22. TOTAL ARIZONA RESIDENTS GRADUATED
2008 (27) 2009 (20) 2010 (19) 2011 (36) 2012 (20)
40
30
20
10
0

23. TOTAL ARIZONA RESIDENTS GRADUATED
2010 (9) 2011 (24) 2012 (24)
30
23
15
8
0

24. TOTAL AZ RESIDENTS GRADUATED
ETHNIC/DISABILITY DIVERSITY
2010 (5) 2011 (3) 2012 (4)
10
8
5
3
0

25. CSD SO 5-year Statistics from 2007-2012
2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012
Admitted Total 34 27 38 61 36
Admitted – AZ 27 20 18 36 20
Residents
Ethnic/Disability 14 12 13
Diversity – Total
Ethnic/Disability 5 3 4
Diversity – AZ
Graduated – Total 41 30 16 37 29
Graduated – AZ 9 24 24
•
57 Arizona resident graduates in the last 3 years
•
74 Arizona resident graduates scheduled for the next 3 years

26. Some of our success stories...

27. Meet Victoria, Our Outstanding Summers-
Only Student
After a 2011 summer externship, Victoria will
complete her Master’s degree from the
Northern Arizona University Communication
Sciences and Disorders Program.
She is employed at Madison Heights Elementary
School in Phoenix, where she is currently co-
authoring a combined curriculum for
occupational and speech therapy activities in the
school setting.
In the future, Victoria hopes to start an art
school for children with disabilities and aspires
to return to NAU to teach an augmentative
communication class.

28. Northern Arizona University
Champions of the ArSHA 2012 Praxis Bowl

29. Thank you SPDG for your
support!
You are helping us to better serve
Arizona’s children with disabilities.