Speech therapists diagnose, assess and treat communication disorders, working with adults and children in schools, hospitals and the community. Audiologists measure people’s hearing, fit and adjust hearing aids (including state-of-the art implants) and give advice on coping with a hearing impairment. Audiologists work with adults, people with special needs and sometimes children and newborn babies. For both types of courses you will need an interest in science and good communication skills.
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speech therapy and audiology
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This subject covers a group of related subjects, like audiology and speech science. The most common job for graduates from this group is speech therapy, and about a quarter had studied audiology. There are not many audiology graduates each year in the UK, and they usually go on to jobs as – you guessed it – audiologists (mostly in hospitals). Speech science or therapy graduates often go straight into speech therapy jobs when they graduate, although you don’t absolutely have to be a speech therapist if you take the course. Graduates from last year in this subject went into a surprisingly wide range of jobs – but were largely in health or childcare roles.
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Jobs where this degree is useful
Speech therapist
Audiologist
Clinical researcher
Other real-life job examples
Welfare support officer
Medical technician
Special needs teaching specialist
What employers like about this subject
A speech therapy and/ or audiology degree will provide you with subject-specific skills including the physiology and biology of speech and hearing; communication with individuals with difficulties in speech and/ or hearing; the principles of speech and language development, and an understanding of clinical research methodology and how to conduct and interpret clinical research. Transferable skills you can gain from a speech therapy course include excellent communication skills, problem-solving and making decisions under pressure. Graduates from the discipline tend to work in schools, hospitals, specialist health practices, social care organisations and healthcare regulators.
