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2023 entry application deadlines

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Deadlines for on-time applications

2023 entry application deadlines

For courses starting in 2023 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.

15 October 2022 for 2023 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.

25 January 2023 for 2023 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.

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Start date: September 2023.

Expand+Overview
The highly competent graduates from this course are passionate about their profession and compassionate to their clients and their families.

Summary
This course aims to produce highly competent, passionate, compassionate speech and lang...

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The highly competent graduates from this course are passionate about their profession and compassionate to their clients and their families.

Summary
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.

You will be facilitated in your learning by a welcoming, collegiate community of speech and language academics and your peers in class. In addition, you will learn in an academic department (School of Health Sciences) with other health professional students which helps prepare you fully for working in an inter-professional manner.

About
The programme meets the needs of those who wish to gain a professional qualification in speech and language therapy together with a good foundation for postgraduate study, involvement in research, and continuing professional development. This programme is recognised by the Professional and Statutory bodies for speech and language therapists (SLTs) in the United Kingdom.

Graduates are eligible to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). HCPC is the statutory body which regulates the profession and allows graduates to practise as an SLT in the UK. Graduates are also eligible for full membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).

There is a strong focus on the application of current theory and evidence to the development of practitioners with good clinical skills. Graduates are fit for purpose to work with people of all ages with communication problems and who are able to use and contribute to research in the area of speech, language and communication. Practice placements are therefore an integral part of the programme and are enhanced by a range of University-based and placement-based support and learning opportunities.

There is also a distinct eating/drinking/swallowing stand through this programme. Graduates will have completed 100 SLT-supervised clinical hours across the three years in predominantly eating/drinking/swallowing placements. This is in addition to 480 plus SLT-supervised clinical hours in a range of child and adult settings where Speech and Language Therapists work.

The SLT students are taught by a range of experts, and at the core, there is a specialist team of six highly qualified SLTs. The profiles below give you an introduction to three of them.

Dr. Orla Duffy is a clinical expert in how we use our voices effectively with a particular interest in professional voice users.Her publications extend into the areas of identification of research priorities for health professions, facial movement in Parkinson's Disease and voice training for call centre workers and teachers. Her external roles include Member of National Directors of Placement Education in SLT Committee, RCSLT research champion and external examiner at Newcastle University. She is the Placement Co-ordinator for this programme.

Dr. Lynda Kennedy is a specialist in the area of clinical linguistics. Her research interests are around the linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of typical and bilingual language acquisition, developmental and acquired communication problems. She is a member of the Ulster Centre on Multilingualism and has led in the development of a language outreach programme for Newcomer pupils in NI (in collaboration with Barnardos NI.). She is Year 2 Tutor.

Rosalind Gray Rogers is an expert in developing academic and professional standards both for Speech and Language Therapy courses and for wider health-related programmes. Her passion is working with people with an acquired language problem called "aphasia". She lectures on this on the course, as well as the area of neuroscience. She was Chair of RCSLT's UK Council. She is Course Director of this programme.

Expand+Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module. Assessment can be via one method or a combination e.g. examination and coursework . Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes. You c...

Hide-Assessment methods vary and are defined explicitly in each module. Assessment can be via one method or a combination e.g. examination and coursework . Assessment is designed to assess your achievement of the module’s stated learning outcomes. You can expect to receive timely feedback on all coursework assessment. The precise assessment will depend on the module and may be subject to change from year to year for quality or enhancement reasons. You will be consulted about any significant changes.

Coursework can take many forms, for example: essay, report, seminar paper, test, presentation, dissertation, design, artefacts, portfolio, journal, group work. The precise form and combination of assessment will depend on the course you apply for and the module. Details will be made available in advance through induction, the course handbook, the module specification and the assessment timetable. The details are subject to change from year to year for quality or enhancement reasons. You will be consulted about any significant changes.

Normally, a module will have four learning outcomes, and no more than two items of assessment. An item of assessment can comprise more than one task. The notional workload and the equivalence across types of assessment is standardised.

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Clinical placements are an integral part of the development of a speech and language therapist. The clinical experience on this course is designed around your academic preparation for that placement. So, in Year 1, your...

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Clinical placements are an integral part of the development of a speech and language therapist. The clinical experience on this course is designed around your academic preparation for that placement. So, in Year 1, your focus is on children and young people, and you are therefore out in late Spring on a child and young persons' SLT-placement. You are on placement for a 'block period' of four to five days a week for five weeks.

In Year 2, your focus is on adults and acquired communication and eating, drinking and swallowing problems. You are on placement in late Spring on an acquired neurological and adult learning difficulties persons' SLT-placements, for a 'block period' of four days a week for five weeks.

In Year 3, you have a focus on adult clients in Semester 1 for six weeks followed by an adult-orientated SLT-placement for six weeks, four days a week. You then focus on children and young people in Semester 2 for six weeks, followed by a children and young persons' SLT-placement for six weeks, four days a week.

It is useful to note that all of these placements are run in partnership with Northern Ireland Health Trusts' SLT services. All of the above are SLT-supervised clinical placements where your clinical placement educators have had the opportunity to be trained in your learning needs and our goals of the placement.

Although all placements are in Northern Ireland, in order that you can experience a broad range of settings and clients, you may need to travel a distance to placement or reside locally to that placement. This may incur additional personal expense.

Expand+Graduate employers
Graduates from this course are now working for:
• Education Authority
• NHS
• Private sector
• Stroke Association Northern Ireland

Job roles
With this degree you could become:
• Autism Therapist
• Learning Di...

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Graduates from this course are now working for:
• Education Authority
• NHS
• Private sector
• Stroke Association Northern Ireland

Job roles
With this degree you could become:
• Autism Therapist
• Learning Disability Support worker
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Support Worker

Career options
Most graduates currently find employment within the NHS, the Education sector and increasingly in the Charities and Voluntary sector. There are a range of opportunities for speech and language therapists, working both within Health and Education. Opportunities for speech and language therapists exist throughout the UK, Ireland and other parts of the world, although graduates are likely to have to meet specific requirements for professional recognition/registration in other countries and may require some experience within the UK first. There are many opportunities for postgraduate study as full-time and part-time students since the area of communication problems and their management is a rapidly growing area of research and continuing professional development.