Clinical Neuropsychology956 (CN956) is the research affiliate of the clinical neuropsychology emphasis of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) in Edinburg, Texas. UTRGV was created by the Texas legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century. The clinical psychology doctoral program was designed to meet the university goal of becoming a bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate university. The doctoral program, that accepted its first cohort in 2019, is situated within the Texas/Mexico borderlands region where greater than 70% of residents speak Spanish at home (U.S. Census Bureau, 2023). The program has an innovative approach that trains students to service this underrepresented community. Applicants are not required to be fluent in Spanish. It is expected that accreditation from the American Psychological Association will be granted in Spring 2024.
