Department of Speech Therapy

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he Department of Speech Therapy is part of the Faculty of Psychology, Speech Therapy and Educational Sciences. It organizes the Master's degree in Logopedics, which offers three specialized majors: one in "Voice", a second in "Communication and Disability" and a third in "Neuropsychology of Language and Verbal Learning Disorders". The teaching team is made up of professors and scientists, most of whom hold doctorates in the field of logopedics, as well as assistants and clinicians, enabling us to offer excellent training that is both theoretical and scientific, and rooted in the realities of the field.

The courses offered by the department cover many facets of speech therapy (voice, deafness, learning disorders, disability, stuttering, language development disorders, aphasia, bilingualism) and address a range of audiences from early childhood to adulthood. Content is underpinned by fundamental and applied research, using a variety of methodologies (case studies, randomized controlled trials, longitudinal follow-up, action research) and devices (MRI, virtual reality, voice dosimetry, voice analysis software, etc.).

The department is also heavily involved in community services, such as patient follow-up in clinical consultations at the CPLU and CHU, participation in professional or patient associations (e.g. scientific committee memberships), organization of congresses, symposia, seminars and continuing education courses. He is also involved with the FNRS, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, INAMI and ONE, and collaborates with other Belgian or foreign universities (e.g. development cooperation in Vietnam). Since 2017, he has been involved in a co-organization of studies for the professional bachelor's degree in logopedics at the City of Liège (Haute École de la Ville de Liège).