ARKANSAS  COMMUNICATION  BOARD

SERVICES

The state consultant provides a variety of general, targeted, and intensive services to support and advance the provision of speech and language services in the schools, including...

• Consultation and technical assistance,

• Provision of continuing professional education,

• Distribution of professional news and information,

• Facilitation of intrastate communication among speech-language pathologists, related service providers, and educational personnel, and

• Maintenance of a resource and materials loan program.

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As of June 2018, the state consultant also coordinates the SLP Support Personnel Program for the school districts and education cooperatives that have been approved to use this speech-language service delivery model, including...

• Management of the program approval process

• Provision of training and technical assistance, and

• Review of compliance status.