Course details
This Health Service Skills certificate with an emphasis on Speech and Language assistant provides training for care assistants and Speech Therapy assistants and equips them with the skills and knowledge to care for clients in a safe and hygienic environment. You will gain a knowledge of varying roles of the speech and language therapy assistant in clinical practice and an awareness of ways to assist the speech & language therapist in the preparation and implementation of therapeutic programmes.
Speech and language therapy assistants work with Speech Therapists to help people to minimise or overcome impaired speech, voice, language or swallowing difficulties. They also help people with psychiatric disorders, people who have suffered from head injuries and those who are learning to cope with a degenerative disease.
On the Speech and Language Therapy Assistant course, you will gain a knowledge of the application of a wide range of communication styles and codes to speech and therapy practice. You will study the influences of physical, sensory, perceptual, cognitive and behavioural factors on receptive and expressive Communication. You will also gain an understanding of the need to provide supports to enable and enhance interpersonal communication, about group dynamics and group processes in therapy and the role of the speech therapy assistant in the safe management of eating, drinking and swallowing disorders.
Qualifications Gained
- FETAC Level 5 Major Award, Health Service Skills DHSSX
Entry Requirements
- Entry to this course is by direct application to the college. Acceptance to Full Time courses is interview based, there are no specific points requirements.
Course Content Modules
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Care Support
- Communications
- Human Growth and Development
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Work Experience
- Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Theory
- Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Practice
- Workplace Statutory Policies and Procedures
- Occupational First Aid (additional fee)
Course Location
About Portobello Institute
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