Triple L: Leadership in Language and Literacy:

The School of Communication Science and Disorders received a federal grant award from the Office of Special Education Programs of the Department of Education to support doctoral student leadership training at Florida State University. The $1,246,133 grant was awarded to FSU for the doctoral training project, titled Triple L: Leadership in Language and Literacy led by SCSD faculty Carla Wood, Andrea Barton-Hulsey, and Hugh Catts.  Triple L will provide tuition and stipends for six doctoral students over a 5-year period. Triple L is designed to build the capacity of future leaders in speech-language pathology with specialized knowledge to foster research and innovations for improving language and literacy outcomes for children with developmental disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Triple L project will support doctoral-level graduate students to generate, implement, evaluate and disseminate high-quality research, evidence-based practice, and policy. Triple L will also engage doctoral scholars at three partnering universities through joint symposiums and cross-disciplinary research to maximize impact and build knowledge and skills essential for leadership personnel.

The Triple L faculty are currently soliciting applications for doctoral students to begin in the summer or fall semester 2020.  If interested in applying for funding to pursue a doctoral degree and have an interest in improving language and literacy outcomes for children with developmental disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds please contact Carla Wood (Carla.Wood@cci.fsu.edu); Andrea Barton-Hulsey (andrea.barton-hulsey@cci.fsu.edu); or Hugh Catts (hugh.catts@cci.fsu.edu).