| Field of Study: | Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist
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| Description: | This course aims to produce highly competent, passionate, compassionate speech and language therapists who practise safely and effectively. You will gain knowledge and understanding of communication and eating, drinking and swallowing problems and how these problems impact on your client's ability to live a full live, as well as affect their family. You will learn how to assess such problems and how to work with the person to improve or maintain their communication and eating, drinking and swallowing abilities, with the intent to improve their ability to engage fully in their life.
You will be supported to develop skills of team working, clinical reflection and presentation skills during the in-house university modules as well as when out on placement. You will also develop your research skills in order to ensure that your management of people with a communication problem is current and based on good evidence. |