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project building bridges funded us department education office special education programs address shortage speechlanguage pathologists qualified serve students complex communication needs benefit augmentative alternative communication aac culturally linguistically diverse purpose train future speechlanguage pathologists culturally responsive aac practices coursework fieldwork aac integrated master science degree speech language hearing sciences fiftyseven graduate students completed project scholars curriculum consisted two aac courses oncampus externship aac clinical practicum experiences provide services multicultural linguistically diverse students us international servicelearning opportunity cumulative portfolio presentations mixedmethods outcome measures consisted four sets pre postsurveys qualitative feedback exit interviews assess changes graduate student competencies significant differences demonstrated scholars pre postassessments confidence ratings significant differences also demonstrated scholars school mentors pre postassessments competency ratings significant differences found evaluations aac preparation clinical fellowship cf candidates cf mentors 1 year postgraduation project building bridges provides framework preparing highly qualified speechlanguage pathologists serve culturally linguistically diverse students benefit aac evidenced pre postsurvey results project serve model university programs development preservice preparation programs focusing culturally linguistically diverse students aac needs