本课程旨在培养能干，热情，富有同情心的语言和语言治疗师，他们将安全有效地进行练习。您将获得有关沟通和饮食，饮水和吞咽问题的知识和理解，以及这些问题如何影响您的客户过满生活的能力以及对他们家庭的影响。您将学习如何评估此类问题，以及如何与人合作以改善或维持他们的沟通，饮食，吞咽和吞咽能力，以期提高他们充分参与生活的能力。在内部大学课程以及外出实习期间，将支持您发展团队合作技能，临床反思和演讲技巧。您还将开发自己的研究技能，以确保您对有沟通问题的人的管理是最新的，并基于充分的证据。
The highly competent graduates from this course are passionate about their profession and compassionate to their clients and their families. This course aims to produce highly competent, passionate, compassionate speech and language therapists who practise safely and effectively. You will gain knowledge and understanding of communication and eating, drinking and swallowing problems and how these problems impact on your client's ability to live a full live, as well as affect their family. You will learn how to assess such problems and how to work with the person to improve or maintain their communication and eating, drinking and swallowing abilities, with the intent to improve their ability to engage fully in their life. You will be supported to develop skills of team working, clinical reflection and presentation skills during the in-house university modules as well as when out on placement. You will also develop your research skills in order to ensure that your management of people with a communication problem is current and based on good evidence. You will experience a fully co-ordinated three year course where all aspects of theory and practical experience are carefully integrated together. Your assessments will also develop your ability to integrate theory with practice as a speech and language therapist. This will happen in well-supported, logical steps across the three years.