From acupuncturist to speech and language therapist
17 of the 73 essential skills of a speech and language therapist are already essential for a acupuncturist — about 23% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 17
- skills carry over
- 56
- would be new
- 23%
- of the target job covered
- 73
- essential skills of a speech and language therapist
What a speech and language therapist does
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.
What carries over
17 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- provide health education
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
56 skillsEssential for a speech and language therapist and not for a acupuncturist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply organisational techniques
- audiology
- audiometry
- behavioural neurology
- communicate in healthcare
- 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
- diagnose speech disorders
- educate on the prevention of illness
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems
- exercise patience
- facial gymnastics
- first aid
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hearing loss
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- linguistics
- lip reading
- logopaedics
- 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
and 16 more
Other moves from acupuncturist
2 roles- orthoptist18 skills in common
- physiotherapist17 skills in common
← acupuncturistspeech and language therapist →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a speech and language therapist?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.