Kunming Medical University Starts First Medical Bachelor’s Program in Speech-Language Pathology

Kunming Medical University’s Rehabilitation Medicine Department, led by Dr. Ao Lijuan, who is also a member of the Olivia’s Place Technical Advisory Board, has just recruited the first cohort of freshman students in September for a four year degree program in Audiology and Speech and Language Pathology. It is the first-ever such program at a medical school in China. Through collaborative work with Olivia’s Place, Kunming Medical University began a partnership with the University of Hawaii’s John Burns Medical School.  The University of Hawaii has been providing technical support and faculty training to Kunming Medical University since summer 2013 to develop this groundbreaking new program.  Congratulations to Kunming Medical University, the faculty led by Dr. Ao who have worked to establish this program, and to the first freshman class of future speech-language pathologists!