The Speech and Language Therapy undergraduate program aims to train graduates who can identify communication, language, speech, voice, and swallowing disorders, apply preventive and therapeutic approaches, observe professional and ethical values, and use technological developments effectively.
The Department of Speech and Language Therapy aims to inform and raise awareness of the public, contribute to science, and work in a contemporary manner with an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach.
Graduates can work in private clinics, rehabilitation centers, and universities by taking the title of Speech and Language Therapist. After undergraduate education, they can complete master's and doctoral programs.
Today, especially with the development of technology, it is an undeniable fact that speech and language disorders tend to increase in society due to the screen exposure of infants and young children who have not yet completed various developmental stages, the weakening of social communication during the pandemic process, etc. In addition, the needs for fluency disorders and therapy, voice disorders and therapy, swallowing disorders and therapy, and developmental or acquired language disorders and therapy, which are sub-fields of the speech and language therapy profession, are increasing day by day. Speech and language therapy is expected to be a popular profession that is just developing, but in line with the need in many fields, it is expected to be a popular profession among the professions of the future.
The Department of Speech and Language Therapy can be a suitable choice for candidates who have strong human relations and communication skills, are friendly and patient, have a high ability to teach and persuade, empathize, understand, and think critically.
Units where graduates who graduated from the undergraduate program and have the title of speech and language therapist can work: Medical Faculty Hospitals of Universities, State Hospitals, Private Hospitals, Special Education and Rehabilitation Centers, Universities, and Private Clinics.
Students enrolled in the program can transfer between health sciences departments.