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MSc - Master of Science
City Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
2 Year
MSc Speech and Language Therapy (pre-registration) at Leeds Beckett prepares you to join the speech and language therapy workforce as part of a multidisciplinary team. Your career will involve advocating for communication rights and supporting individuals to live fully and expressively. This accelerated, pre-registration postgraduate degree is suitable if you have a relevant undergraduate degree - such as psychology, linguistics, English language, or biology. You'll also be passionate about fostering collaborative relationships that support communication and wellbeing around eating and drinking. As part of this course, you'll: Develop the knowledge and skills to work alongside individuals with diverse communication profiles Study via a blend of lectures, seminars, and hands-on learning Learn to co-create supportive strategies and approaches with children and adults who experience speech, language and communication needs, and/or eating, drinking, and swallowing needs Gain real-world experience in varied settings: from in-patient hospital wards and clinics, to community settings such as schools, day centres, and clients' homes, building your confidence and preparing you to work in dynamic, inclusive environments Take a critical and reflective approach to learning, with opportunities to explore your interests in depth, including a range of university-based and clinical placement experiences Professional recognition On successful completion of this course, you'll be eligible to apply to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and become recognised as a speech and language therapist (SLT). The HCPC have certain standards all registrants must meet to legally practice under a protected profession title. You'll also meet the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Eating, Drinking, and Swallowing competency framework, giving you the knowledge and skills to work with people with eating and drinking differences.
This module will introduce you to the foundation subjects needed to study speech and language therapy. These include: development across the human lifespan, anatomical structures and physiological processes relevant to the human nervous system and to respiration, phonation, articulation, hearing, deglutition and language processing; linguistics, phonetics and phonology. It will provide training in practical phonetics and phonological analysis of child speech. You'll develop an understanding of the production, transmission, and perception of speech sounds and how these are used to convey meaning. You'll also learn to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to transcribe simple sequences of sounds and to transcribe English phonemically.
Integrate and apply theoretical learning related to medical sciences, linguistics, psychology, speech disorders and dysphagia across the lifespan to speech and language therapy practice. You'll study the concepts, models and theories underpinning clinical practice and you'll build an understanding of the professional skills required for SLT practice.
Apply theoretical knowledge to clients in a clinical context and develop your professional, communication, and clinical skills. You'll attend three placements to establish all of the masters Year 1 core skills, aligned to all HCPC SOPs.
Examine acquired and developmental disorders of language, with particular focus on aphasia and developmental language disorder. You'll study language disorders with consideration and evaluation of cognitive, medical, behavioural, environmental and psychosocial issues.
Develop the skills you need to become a confident consumer of research and an evidence-based practitioner. You'll explore how to read and interpret research, evaluate the quality of evidence, and consider how it can inform clinical decision making. You'll engage with key aspects of the research process, such as shaping meaningful questions, conducting literature reviews, and considering how studies are designed. This ensures appropriate methodological decisions are made when answering research questions.
Develop your clinical and professional skills, required for speech and language therapy practice and interprofessional working. This includes interpersonal and communication skills and professional procedures. The development of a professional ePortfolio demonstrates evidence of the HCPC Standards of Proficiency and reflective practice.
This clinical placement module builds on the clinical, professional and interactional skills developed in the clinical placement 1. You'll attend two placements: Placement 1 – ongoing placement – one day a week for 10 weeks Placement 2 – block placement – four days a week for eight weeks.
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