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Study Details: 2 years
This accredited course qualifies you to practise as a speech and language therapist in a variety of health and education settings. It can be studied full-time or part-time, over two or three years.
You will study a wide variety of difficulties that adults and children can have with communicating and/or eating, drinking and swallowing. Topics range from anatomy and physiology, and their relationship with speech and language pathology, to the psychological and sociological factors that can affect communication.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to assess an individual’s communication or eating, drinking and swallowing difficulty, identify suitable interventions and manage their progress. You’ll work closely with service users, family members, carers and related professionals to support the people you are working with. You will also complete pre-registration eating, drinking and swallowing competencies.
This training will be put into practice and developed through a series of clinical placements, both within the University of Sheffield’s in-house speech and language therapy clinic and in a variety of health and education settings.
The course is led by a supportive team of clinical and research specialists, including speech and language therapists, psychologists, audiologists, linguists, information technologists, and medical practitioners. The University is a world-leading centre of research, and our teams will embed the latest research into your teaching to enable you to make evidence-based decisions in future practice.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in any subject.
Graduates from this course can register with the Health and Care Professions Council and practice as speech and language therapists.
Speech and language therapists are in high demand, and there are plenty of opportunities to specialise in areas such as mental health, stammering, hearing impairment, learning disabilities, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties, or neurological impairments.
Many of our graduates have gone on to successful careers within NHS trusts, schools, charities, private practices or the justice system. Others choose to go on to further postgraduate study and a research career.
First year:
SLT-M Biomedical Science
SLT-M Speech, language, communication and literacy development in children
SLT-M Speech and Hearing Science
SLT-M Developmental differences in speech, language and communication
SLT-M Introduction to practical Linguistics
SLT-M Language cognition and communication in adults 1
SLT-M Language cognition and communication in adults 2
SLT-M Research Methods and Statistics
SLT-M Professional Practice 1
Participation and Society
Second year:
SLT-M Language Analysis: Sound and Structure
SLT-M Transition to Professional Autonomy
SLT-M Evaluating the evidence base in speech and language therapy 1: Principles and methods
SLT-M Evaluating the evidence base in speech and language therapy II: Clinical dissertation
SLT-M Key Clinical Topics 1
SLT-M Key Clinical Topics 2
SLT-M Professional Practice 2
SLT-M Professional Practice 3
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