Speech Therapy

Studying Speech Therapy

Speech therapy focuses on the human voice as well as speech, language, and difficulty swallowing. This field of study will prepare you to support people of all ages with speech development or pronunciation: for example, children with delayed development or those who have suffered a stroke or are ill.

Speech therapy combines knowledge from medicine, linguistics, education, therapy science, and psychology. In this field of study, you’ll learn, among other things, the basics of oral medicine, linguistics and neurology. This will teach you to recognize, diagnose, and treat speech, language, hearing and swallowing disorders.

A speech therapy degree program focuses on therapy methods and techniques as well as the use of special aids. For example, you’ll learn how to adapt exercises and training plans to suit your patients’ needs and counteract lisping or stuttering. You will typically be able to try out your knowledge in practical exercises during your studies.

If you’d like to improve people's communication skills as well as their quality of life, you should study speech therapy. Many degree programs in this field of study allow you to focus on special speech therapy disorders or target groups, including patients with behavioral disorders, speech development disorders in children or hearing-impaired people.