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The
graduate institute of
Audiology and Speech
Pathology was established in
September 2001. The graduate
institute offers a graduate
program in audiology and
speech pathology at the
master level. Acknowledging
the great demand of speech
therapists (or
speech-language
pathologists) and
audiologists in Taiwan,
National Kaohsiung Normal
University submitted to
Ministry of Education a
proposal to establish a
graduate institute in
communication disorders in
1999. The proposal was
approved in 2001, and the
institute was admitted to
have its first class with
ten graduate students, five
in audiology division and
five in speech therapy
division. In order to train
more numbers of
professionals in this area
to serve the majority people
in the southern Taiwan, we
try to increase the number
of graduate students year by
year. Since 2002, the
student number has increased
to seven for speech therapy
to make a total of 12
students each year. Since
2007, the graduate school
admitted 15 students each
year, ten students in speech
therapy and five in the
audiology. We hope to
recruit more specialists in
the communicative disorder
area in the future. In 2007,
the graduate school began to
launch the Clinical Center
of Speech and Hearing on
campus as a community
outreach program as well as
a practicum resource center
for graduate students. The
Clinical Center of Speech
and Hearing mainly provides
many kinds of clinical
services, including
audiometry, hearing
rehabilitation and speech
therapy or speech training
for children or adults with
communicative disorders.
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