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Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)

  • Bachelor (Honours)

Secure your future with highly specialised training, exciting placements and flexible outcomes.Speech pathologists are allied health professionals responsible for the assessment and treatment of children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan, such as...

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor (Honours)
Duration
4 years full-time, 10 years part-time
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb

About this course

Secure your future with highly specialised training, exciting placements and flexible outcomes.

Speech pathologists are allied health professionals responsible for the assessment and treatment of children and adults with communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan, such as developmental and acquired speech and language disorders, cleft lip and palate, voice disorders and stuttering.

When you study a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) at the University of Newcastle, you are accessing the most comprehensive degree of its kind in Australia, opening up experiences and job opportunities like no other.

What you will learn

You will develop competencies and learn the necessary skills to confidently take on the full range of conditions that speech pathologists assess and treat, including:

  • All acquired and developmental human communication disorders
  • Swallowing disorders
  • Speech disorders
  • Fluency disorders
  • Voice disorders
  • Communication disorders of neurological origin

Students will study a variety of foundation courses including:

  • Linguistics
  • Psychology
  • Bioscience
  • Anatomy

As part of the honours component in this degree you can choose from the study pathways outlined in the Speech Pathology handbook .