Experiences establishing a new speech-language pathology training program in Ethiopia, a resource-limited setting: Lessons learned.
Purpose: Ethiopia is the second most populous country in sub-Saharan Africa. While Ethiopia's health care system includes primary health centres, general, and specialised hospitals, allied health care like speech-language pathology was not available until 2003. This article was written with the aim...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 749 - 759 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2025
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