speech and language therapist
ISCO: 2266. Skills: 87. Essential: 73.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- audiology
- audiometry
- behavioural neurology
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct research on speech-related topics
- contribute to continuity of health care
- counsel on communication disorders
- counsel patients on improving speech
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose speech disorders
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems
- exercise patience
- facial gymnastics
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- hearing loss
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- linguistics
- lip reading
- listen actively
- logopaedics
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- movement techniques
- neurology
- neuropsychology
- organise relapse prevention
- otorhinolaryngologic conditions
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform therapy sessions
- phonetics
- phoniatrics
- professional documentation in health care
- promote good habits to avoid communication disorders
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- psychiatry
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- sign language
- special needs education
- speech techniques
- teach communication methods
- treat speech disorders
- treat swallowing disorders
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use techniques to increase patients' motivation
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Supporting skills
- autism
- bobath therapy
- conduct polysomnography
- cued speech
- interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology
- pedagogy
- provide stroke rehabilitation services
- psychoacoustics
- psycholinguistics
- refer healthcare users
- supervise speech and language team
- undertake clinical audit
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care