From occupational therapy assistant to speech and language therapist
11 of the 73 essential skills of a speech and language therapist are already essential for a occupational therapy assistant — about 15% 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.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 62
- would be new
- 15%
- 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
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- communicate in healthcare
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- exercise patience
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hygiene in a health care setting
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
What would be new
62 skillsEssential for a speech and language therapist and not for a occupational therapy assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- 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
- 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
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems
- facial gymnastics
- first aid
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care legislation
- hearing loss
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- linguistics
- lip reading
- logopaedics
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- neurology
- neuropsychology
- organise relapse prevention
- otorhinolaryngologic conditions
- paediatrics
and 22 more
Other moves from occupational therapy assistant
1 roles- occupational therapist21 skills in common
← occupational therapy assistantspeech 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.