SPEECH THERAPIST PROFESSIONAL

Speech pathologists examine patients and create treatment plans tailored to their needs. They may also work with patients who suffer from chronic diseases or who have experienced a trauma. They work with patients affected by a variety of neurological events, such as brain damage, stroke, seizure, or cancer. To prepare students to work in different speech therapy service settings upon graduation, clinical placements are arranged not only at STU, but also with clinical education partners such as the Hospital Authority, non-government organisations, special and mainstream schools and other community service providers.What does a medical speech-language pathologist do?Ī medical speech-language pathologist works in health care and diagnoses and treats a wide range of speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders. They will cover the assessment and treatment of speech, language, literacy, voice, fluency and swallowing disorders of clinical populations, varying in age from infancy to old age. The clinical placements in the MST programme are scheduled to occur throughout the 2.5 years of the whole programme. For more details, please visit the STU’s website here. The STU offers a platform for both in-house teaching and research through a service interface. A Speech Therapy Unit (STU) has been established on the PolyU campus. This enhances the integration of learning across courses and enables students to put their theoretical knowledge into practice.Ī vital part of the training for speech therapists involves supervised clinical practice. We adopt a hybrid teaching and learning approach: traditional lectures are conducted in the first year, and the problem based learning (PBL) approach is adopted in the second year. The MST teaching team is composed of academic and teaching staff with considerable teaching experience, proven research track records and extensive clinical expertise. Speech therapy Master’s level programmes are widely adopted as entry-level degrees in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, the MST programme provides an pathway for Bachelor’s degree holders to enter the speech therapy profession. The curriculum offers a unique approach to education and training in Cantonese, Mandarin and English, addressing speech therapy in both Chinese and bilingual contexts.

SPEECH THERAPIST PROFESSIONAL

The programme is designed to equip students with the professional and academic knowledge base, clinical and research skills, and attitudes and ethics required to function effectively as entry-level speech therapists. The Master of Speech Therapy (MST) programme cultivates graduates who will be able to practise as speech therapists in Hong Kong and serve as speech therapy advocates in mainland China and the Macau SAR. Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (with a specialism in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Hong Kong Schools) MA/PgDTCFL(HKS)īachelor of Arts (Honours) / Bachelor of Science (Honours) Scheme in Language Sciences, Translation, and Speech Therapyīachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and Translationīachelor of Arts (Honours) in Language and Speech Sciences Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (MATCFL)Ĭhinese Language and Literature (with a specialism in Chinese Language Teaching for Teachers of Non-Chinese Speaking Students) MACLL (TNCS)

MA Scheme in Chinese, Linguistics and Translation (MASCLT)īilingual Corporate Communication (MABCC)Ĭhinese Language and Literature (MACLL/PgDCLL) Speech and Language Sciences Laboratories.Research Centre for Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience (RCLCN).PolyU-PekingU Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics (RP2U2).Collaboration and Strategic Partnership.BACBS / BALT WIE and Career Development.Cluster Area Requirements (CAR) Subjects.Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Language and Speech Sciences.Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and Translation.Bachelor of Arts (Honours) / Bachelor of Science (Honours) Scheme in Language Sciences, Translation, and Speech Therapy.Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (with a specialism in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Hong Kong Schools) MA/PgDTCFL(HKS).Chinese Language and Literature (with a specialism in Chinese Language Teaching for Teachers of Non-Chinese Speaking Students) MACLL (TNCS).Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (MATCFL).Chinese Language and Literature (MACLL/PgDCLL).Bilingual Corporate Communication (MABCC).MA Scheme in Chinese, Linguistics and Translation (MASCLT).

Speech therapist