speech and language therapist
Speech and language therapists focus on the aetiology, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of communication and swallowing disorders in people of all ages in order to help them maintain, promote, improve, initiate, or recover the ability to communicate both verbally and nonverbally. They address the development of language, speech, vocal and hearing functions, and disorders and disabilities in the cranial, facial, and oral area.
Also called: speech pathologist, practitioner in speech and language therapy, speech therapy practitioner, paediatric speech therapist, logopaedist, speech-language pathologist, logopaedics therapist, paediatric speech and language therapist
- 73
- essential skills
- 14
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
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Essential skills
73- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- audiology
- audiometry
- behavioural neurology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct research on speech-related topics
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel on communication disorders
- counsel patients on improving speech
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose speech disorders
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems
- exercise patience
- facial gymnastics
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hearing loss
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- linguistics
- lip reading
- listen actively
- logopaedics
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- neurology
- neuropsychology
- organise relapse prevention
- otorhinolaryngologic conditions
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform therapy sessions
- phonetics
- phoniatrics
- professional documentation in health care
- promote good habits to avoid communication disorders
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychiatry
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sign language
- special needs education
- speech techniques
- teach communication methods
- treat speech disorders
- treat swallowing disorders
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional skills
14- autism
- bobath therapy
- conduct polysomnography
- cued speech
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- pedagogy
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- psychoacoustics
- psycholinguistics
- refer healthcare users
- supervise speech and language team
- undertake clinical audit
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
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