This programme equips students with the necessary skills, knowledge and experiential learning to entre the language and hearing therapy industry.
Type: Undergraduate Degree
Duration: 4 years full-time
Compulsory Subjects
First Year Subjects:
- Xhosa 178
- Speech Pathology (Introduction to communication disorders and intervention)
- Speech Pathology (Speech and hearing science)
- Speech Pathology (Human communication)
- Speech Pathology (Basic audiometry)
- Psychology
- Clinical Speech Pathology
- Applied Anatomy
- General Linguistics
Second Year Subjects:
- Speech Pathology (Principles of intervention)
- Speech Pathology (Community studies)
- Speech Pathology (Articulation and phonological disorders)
- Speech Pathology (Voice, resonance and craniofacial disorders)
- Speech Pathology (Language disorders)
- Clinical Speech Pathology
- General Linguistics
- Psychology
Third Year Subjects:
- Speech Pathology (Language disorders in specific populations)
- Speech Pathology (Fluency disorders)
- Speech Pathology (Acquired neurogenic communication disorders)
- Speech Pathology (Sign language)
- Speech Pathology (Cerebral palsy)
- Speech Pathology (Approaches to intervention for persons with hearing impairment)
- Speech Pathology (Neuro-anatomy and clinical neurology)
- Speech Pathology (Introduction to research as a professional function)
- Clinical Speech Pathology
- Psychology (Data analysis in psychology)
- Psychology (Behaviour and health)
- Psychology (Community psychology)
Fourth Year Subjects:
- Speech Pathology (Augmentative and alternative communication)
- Speech Pathology (Advanced seminars in speech-language and hearing therapy)
- Speech Pathology (Early intervention)
- Speech Pathology (Intervention for hearing impaired persons)
- Speech Pathology (Neurogenic speech disorders)
- Speech Pathology (Dysphasia)
- Clinical Speech Therapy
- Research Report
Careers: Speech therapist, Hearing Therapist.
Source: www.sun.ac.za