Speech And Language Therapy Course

Do you know that nearly 20% of the population may experience communication difficulties at some point in their lives? Do you want to help them? Then enrol the Speech And Language Therapy Course course and starts your journey with the comprehensive course and learn to develop the skills you need to know about becoming a speech and language therapist.

The course is designed for the people who want to obtain a rewarding career in speech and language therapy. A speech and language therapists are health professional who works with parents, and other professionals, such as teachers, nurses, occupational therapists and doctors. You will be amazed to know that there are approximately 17,000 practising SLTs in the UK working in a wide variety of settings.

Speech and Language therapy deal with the difficulties of language, pronunciation and more. A Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) analyse the patients to find out if they have speech (pronunciation or stammering), language (understanding, sentence formation and grammar), communication (social interaction) or eating and drinking difficulties. Throughout the course, you will learn how to perform the job of an SLT. The procedures for identifying the language and other types of difficulties will be explained in the course.

By the end of the curse, you will be able to give treatment, support and care for children and adults who have difficulties with communication, or with eating, drinking and swallowing.

If you want to pursue a fast-track career in speech and language therapy, you have come to the right place. A speech and language therapist works on the various issues. For example:

• Problem in understanding the sentence formation or delayed or disordered language development
• specific difficulties in producing speech sounds
• delay or disorder when they use speech sounds in words
• Stammering or speaking with sudden involuntary pauses and a tendency to repeating the initial letters of words.
• autism or social interaction difficulties
• voice disorders
• swallowing difficulties including babies

The course almost all these areas and guides you on how to deal with the problems. You will learn how to deal with the patients and parents. The strategies for treating patients with eating disorders or language disorders will be discussed in the course.

Key features of the course:

• Lifetime access to the course
• No hidden fees, only pay the price of the course which includes exam fees.
• Recognised qualification upon successful completion of the course
• Study from anywhere, anytime, whenever it is convenient for you.
• Affordable and engaging e-learning study materials
• Study at your own pace from tablet, PC or smartphone
• Online tutor support when you are in need.

What Will You Learn?:

• Understand the meaning and purpose of speech and language theory.
• Learn about the roles and responsibilities of a speech and language therapists.
• Learn to identify the common types of difficulties such as problems in pronunciation or language, difficulties in social interaction or other problems such as eating or drinking difficulties.
• Learn to analyse and treat speech, language and communication problems in people of all ages to help them communicate better.
• You can treat people from different age including infants, children, adults and adults with learning difficulties.
• Learn a wide range of subjects to develop your understanding of typical speech, language, communication, swallowing and of pathologies in these areas.
• Able to integrate theoretical and real-world for analyzing and managing the clients with communication and swallowing problems
• Able to prepare yourself for working in a challenging and varied field – from working with autistic children and people who stammer to adults who have lost their speech following a stroke and who have learning difficulties.

Course Curriculum

Introduction to Speech and Language Therapy

This module teaches about

• Who Speech and Language Therapists are.
• Who benefits from Speech and Language Therapists
• Where Speech and Language Therapists work
• Problems a child may face while communicating in School
• Responsibilities of a Speech and Language Therapist

Main Ethical Principles of ASHA

This module covers

• Overview about ASHA and its code
• ASHA’s terminology
• Diminished decision-making ability
• Mispresentation
• Rules and principles of Ethics

Literacy, Roles of SLT and Preliteracy in Newborns

In this module you will learn

• Roles of a Speech and Language Therapist
• Preliteracy in newborns
• Oral language development in young children
• Components of Oral Language

Speech Science

This module covers

• What speech science is and what it deals with
• The speech chain and its main focus
• Stages of Speech Communication

Basic Structure and Function of the Human Nervous System

This module covers

• Function and structure of the nervous system
• The central nervous systems and the brain
• Peripheral system and its main divisions

Basics of Linguistics

This module covers

• What linguistics is and its sub-fields
• Syntax and semantics
• Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
• Historical and psycholinguistics
• Neurolinguistics and computational linguistics

Communication Disorders and Fluency disorder

This module covers

• Definition of communication disorder
• Symptoms and causes of communication disorder
• Communications disorders in children and it’s types and causes
• What fluency disorder is and types of stuttering

Speech disorders

This module covers

• What speech disorder is and it’s causes
• Common speech disorders
• Characteristics of speech disorder in children
• Signs and causes of Apraxia and Dysarthria

Language Disorders

This module covers

• Causes and Symptoms of Speech Disorder
• Causes and Symptoms of Phonological disorder
• Semantid-Pragmatic Disorder

Aphasia

This module covers

• What aphasia is
• Types of aphasia and their description
• Causes of aphasia

Agnosia, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Dementia

This module covers

• Causes of agnosia and its relation to aphasia
• ADHD, it’s symptoms and who is affected by it
• Dementia and it’s causes and symptoms
• Basics of Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Understanding Brain Damage Locations

This module covers

• Frontal and Parietal Lobe
• Occipital and Temporal Lobe
• Thalamus and Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Traumatic Brain Injury

This module covers

• What traumatic brain injury is and it’s symptoms
• Physical symptoms and cognitive symptoms
• Children’s symptoms
• effects and classification of TBI

Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s Disease

This module covers

• What is Huntington’s disease
• Symptoms of Huntington’s disease
• Disorders associated with Huntington’s disease
• Symptoms of Juvenile Huntington’s Disease
• Parkinson’s disease, it’s symptoms and causes

Assessment and Certification

The course is assessed online with a multiple-choice test, which is marked automatically. You will know instantly whether you have passed or not. Those who pass this test will have the qualification of Speech And Language Therapy Course. Certificate will be produced in PDF format at an additional cost and sent by email.

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.