Logopedics with audiology

This is a unique program that cannot be found anywhere else in the entire country. The program is delivered by the Department of Logopedics and Applied Linguistics, UMCS (the oldest Polish department dealing with speech disorders), and the Institute of Audition Physiology and Pathology in Warsaw.
Undergraduates will be prepared to diagnose and treat speech and audition disorders on the level of general counseling in educational institutions (kindergartens, primary schools and lower secondary schools), ambulatory healthcare institutions (logopedics, audiology, phoniatric and otolaryngologist clinics) and social assistance centers. Undergraduates will be able to shape and correct voice emission and speaking techniques. This will allow them to work as speech therapists in radio and TV stations, cultural institutions and other institutions employing voice professionals. Undergraduates acquire professional preparation that meets the European standards of educating speech therapists defined by CPLOL (Comite Permanent de Liaison des Orthophonistes-Logopedes de L’Union Europeenne – Standing Liaison Committee of E.U. Speech and Language and Speech Therapists)
Completing teaching specialty within the program curriculum prepares undergraduates to be employed as a teacher – speech therapist and general audiologist. Such person will cooperate with teachers, podiatrists, pedagogues and doctors (audiologists, phoniatrists, otolaryngologists, GPs, psychiatrists and neurologists). Undergraduates will be able to use interdisciplinary knowledge in biological, psychological and linguistic accuracies of a human being (especially within linguistic activities), speech and audition pathologies, therapy and rehabilitation.
Undergraduates will acquire general IT skills and be able to use it in diagnosis and therapy. They will also acquire advanced foreign language skills.

After completing the graduate (second-cycle, MA) program, graduates will be able to deliver teaching classes in voice emission and speaking techniques in any institution offering such courses. Completing the graduate program will allow graduates to open their private counseling therapy service (logopedics and audiophonology offices).