South Africa Initiative

In 2011, the South Africa Initiative was established by Taslim Moosa, Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) and Clinical Educator and Western University.   The primary objective of this initiative is to provide speech and language pathology services to less privileged communities while fostering a sense of social responsibility within the clinical education curriculum of SLP students at Western. Each year select graduating students participate in these supervised placements, providing a forum to discuss social responsibility and social justice, and an opportunity for student clinicians to apply lessons learned as they start their careers as healthcare providers here in Canada. In this way, Western combines the clinical skills training of students with the provision of much needed speech and language pathology services.