Diagnose and treat people with communication impairments including speech, language, stuttering, hearing and swallowing difficulties.
The course aims to develop your understanding of typical communication development, developmental and acquired communication and swallowing disorders, clinical practice in speech pathology and research.
Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students. From your second year, your studies will focus on three streams: human communication science, clinical science in speech pathology and research methods.
You can apply your learning during supervised clinical practice in the on-campus clinic and in professional practice settings. You must complete the fieldwork requirements before entering clinical placements in third year.
Speech Pathology students undertake over 900 hours of clinical training prior to graduation.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.