Your PAth to Speech & Language Therapy

This page is for students currently studying for a degree who wish to do Speech and Language Therapy after their degree.

Courses in Ireland

Study Abroad

Making the application

Useful links  

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Courses in Ireland

To become an SLT you first need a qualification recognised by the Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapy (IASLT). 

The only postgraduate course is:

University of Limerick - MSc in Speech and Language Therapy (Professional Qualification). 
Minimum 2:2 degree - preference given to applicants who have completed a degree in a cognate discipline such as linguistics, anatomy/physiology and/or psychology.
Applicants invited for interview must be able to demonstrate appropriate interest in and knowledge of the profession.
Always check course requirements with the university as the above is subject to change.

BSc. courses are available at:
•  NUI, Galway
•  Trinity College Dublin
•  University College Cork

It may be possible to apply to the above universities to do a second BSc.
If you are applying for a second degree, you must apply through the CAO before February 1st.

Study Abroad

It is also possible to do a BSc in the UK or Northern Ireland after completing your Science degree. Full listings of courses are available on the UCAS website.

If you have done, or are doing, a course outside Ireland, the overseas committee of IASLT, on behalf of the Department of Health and Children, examines and validates qualifications obtained abroad.

www.cplol.org/eng/SLTinEurope.htm gives an overview, by country, on entrance requirements for becoming a SLT throughout the EU. 

Although the RCSLT is the professional body in the UK, to work there you must also register with the Health Professionals Council [HPC] - who list all accepted qualifications on their website.

In November 2008, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA), the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT), the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association (NZSTA), the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and the Speech Pathology Association of Australia (Speech Pathology Australia) signed an international agreement on the mutual recognition of professional association credentials (MRA). See IASLT for further details (pdf).

There are accelerated / short postgraduate courses in the UK – apply directly to the appropriate university. The following have 2-year programmes, for graduates with appropriate degrees, that are recognised by RCSLT/HPC (it is possible that there are other universities also running programmes):

University of Essex - MSc in Speech and Language Therapy (Pre registration)

City University London – PGDip/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy

University College London - MSc in Speech and Language Sciences

Newcastle University - MSc Language Pathology

Queen Margaret University College – Grad Dip Speech and Language Therapy

University of Reading - MSc in Speech and Language Therapy

University of Sheffield - MMedSci (Clinical Communication Studies)

University of Greenwich. PGDip Speech & Language Therapy

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Getting help with the application

Details were correct at time of writing - August 2009. The Career Development Centre offers advice and information in good faith and based on the best information available to it. The Centre does not accept any responsibility for any decisions made by individuals based on such advice or information. The Career Development Centre does not take responsibility for the contents of any sites linked to from its pages.
Please check with individual universities before applying for courses.

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