OMNIE’S EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES

The Ohio Master’s Network Initiatives in Education (OMNIE) is an organized approach for the recruitment, retention, and continuing education of school based clinicians and educational audiologists.  With support from the Ohio Department of Education’s Office for Exceptional Children, the OMNIE Project is a collaborative effort of a group of dedicated and enthusiastic individuals from Ohio public state universities and the Ohio Speech-Language Pathology Supervisory and Audiology Network.  

OMNIE continues to develop and offer educational opportunities:

• Continuing education and college credit courses in literacy training for SLPs

• Undergraduate ‘leveling’ courses that fulfill requirements for entrance into a Master’s program in speech-language pathology
• Distance learning Master’s degree in speech-language pathology to begin January, 2007.

Course listings, descriptions, schedules, and registration information are available on the OMNIE website http://www.omnie.org) or contact Nada Allender, Project Coordinator (nada@ameritech.net)

• SLPs and Literacy: OMNIE is using it’s successful collaborative university model to partner with the University of Cincinnati, University of Akron, Miami University, and the University of Toledo to develop and deliver ten professional development and/or college credit distance learning courses for speech-language pathologists to improve their skills in literacy training.  These courses focus on language and literacy development and link language and literacy skills to Ohio’s Language Art’s Academic Content Standards and are offered at NO COST to Ohio SLPs.  Visit http://www.speechpathology.com/omnie for registration information
   
• Distance Learning Master’s Degree - OMNIE offers a new statewide collaborative distance-learning program in speech-language pathology for Ohio residents interested in a career as a school-based clinician. Ohio universities report their speech-language pathology graduate programs to be at capacity, and the numbers students graduating with the degree is not sufficient to supply the current and projected need. Since the OMNIE Project has a proven collaborative mechanism that has successfully delivered an ASHA approved distance Master’s degree in the past, OMNIE has moved forward to re-design the previous model for a new audience. The target audience will be Ohio residents who hold a Bachelor’s degree in education or in a related field.  The Program had identified 30 candidates and will begin in January, 2007.

For additional information, contact Nada Allender, OMNIE Project Coordinator, at nada@ameritech.net