To meet the need for educational audiologists in Hawaii schools, a cooperative program was designed to establish an educational audiology component in the existing speech-language pathology program at the University of Hawaii. Planned by the University of Hawaii, the Hawaii Department of Education, and the State Education Agency, the Hawaii-based program was needed because of the acute shortage of educational audiologists coupled with the difficulty of recruiting on the mainland. The primary goal of the program was to establish services to the hearing impaired not served by existing programs in Hawaii schools. The target population included children with auditory perceptual disturbances, those with hearing sensitivity and/or acuity disorders, and children with transient disturbances such as otitis media. Phase I of the three-phase program is based at the University of Hawaii and covers preprofessional or basic information coursework, clinical training, and practicum experience. Phase II is the development of a model service center that provides diagnostic and evaluative services and is the referral and management center of the hearing involved children. Phase III is services to the schools, including an information network, referral center for children with suspected hearing disorders, inservice, counseling, and prescriptive diagnosis. (JHZ)