speech and language therapist (EN)
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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.
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Source aliases (EN)
- 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
- psychomotor specialist
- speech therapist
- language therapist
- specialist speech and language therapist
- language therapy practitioner
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 73
- hygiene in a health care setting
- respond to changing situations in health care
- otorhinolaryngologic conditions
- educate on the prevention of illness
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- audiometry
- contribute to continuity of health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- health care legislation
- conduct research on speech-related topics
- lip reading
- audiology
- exercise patience
- empathise with the healthcare user
- medical terminology
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- facial gymnastics
- treat swallowing disorders
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- manage healthcare users' data
- human physiology
- deal with emergency care situations
- hearing loss
- neurology
- provide health education
- evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems
- logopaedics
- communicate in healthcare
- follow clinical guidelines
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- counsel patients on improving speech
- linguistics
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke
- paediatrics
- behavioural neurology
- phoniatrics
- speech techniques
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- professional documentation in health care
- human anatomy
- comply with legislation related to health care
- listen actively
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- promote good habits to avoid communication disorders
- counsel on communication disorders
- perform therapy sessions
- medical informatics
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- promote inclusion
- psychology
- interact with healthcare users
- organise relapse prevention
- diagnose speech disorders
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- treat speech disorders
- apply organisational techniques
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- pathology
- phonetics
- apply context specific clinical competences
- sign language
- neuropsychology
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- special needs education
- movement techniques
- teach communication methods
- first aid
- accept own accountability
- psychiatry
Optional (EN) · 14
- undertake clinical audit
- bobath therapy
- cued speech
- autism
- psycholinguistics
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- pedagogy
- conduct polysomnography
- psychoacoustics
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- supervise speech and language team
- use foreign languages in patient care
- refer healthcare users
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