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Celestial707  +  511320 Thu, 08 May 08 06:11 PM

I am about to go to University and have to decide what i want to do. Speech Therapy has been an interesting option for a while now and I would like to know if you could give me any information on what it is like to be a Speech Therapist in South Africa, or if you know of any websites where i could get more information.

Would you recommend specialising in Language Pathology as well as Audiology, or simply language pathology?

Thanks in advance.
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Anonymous, 1 yr 118 days ago
Hi There!

I was just doing some research on speech and language therapy and came across this blog. I work for an Internationa  Teaching recruitment company and we're urgently searching for a speech and langauge therapist (qualified and experienced) to teach at a very high profile Special School in Bahrain (from Sept 2008). The school was opened by the Sultan of Bahrain and is a very well funded school- first of it's kind in Bahrain.

This is an amazing opportunity as you will have the chance to help change attitudes towards special needs and make a real difference. The salaries are also amazing- between R360 000 and R450 000 per year. You will also receive between R12 000 and R15 000 per month as a housing subsidy, free yearly return aifare, medical etc. If anyone is interested- please (Sorry, but email addresses are not allowed in posts.  You may include it in your profile if you register in the forums.)

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Anonymous, 1 yr 109 days ago
Hi,

I'm a speech therapist and I work in the Channel Islands and Britain. What's it like as a therapist in France? What specifically are you looking for on SLT?

Edwin
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Calantha  +  554217 Wed, 13 Aug 08 08:53 AM
In studies of neurogenic communication disorders, medical records commonly are used to characterize brain lesions, to make decisions regarding participant inclusion, and to draw general conclusions regarding brain-behavior relationships. The validity of using existing medical records has not been directly evaluated. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the potential problems with relying exclusively on medical records to characterize neurological lesions. Examples from a study of language in adults with right hemisphere brain damage are used to highlight discrepancies between imaging reports taken from existing medical records and structural images obtained at the time of the study. The discussion of factors that may contribute to discrepancies between the imaging reports includes the scanning method and protocol used, interrater reliability for reading neuroradiologic images, the effect of time, and neurological changes associated with normal aging.
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Tanit  +  554250 Wed, 13 Aug 08 10:11 AM

Calantha
“In studies of neurogenic communication disorders, medical records commonly are used to characterize brain lesions, to make decisions regarding participant inclusion, and to draw general conclusions regarding brain-behavior relationships. The validity of using existing medical records has not been directly evaluated. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the potential problems with relying exclusively on medical records to characterize neurological lesions. Examples from a study of language in adults with right hemisphere brain damage are used to highlight discrepancies between imaging reports taken from existing medical records and structural images obtained at the time of the study. The discussion of factors that may contribute to discrepancies between the imaging reports includes the scanning method and protocol used, interrater reliability for reading neuroradiologic images, the effect of time, and neurological changes associated with normal aging.
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Hi Calantha, and welcome to the forums.

Your post appears to be an excerpt from a published report, so I'm acknowledging here the source for you.

REFERENCE:

ML Blake and A Baumgaertner (2007) "On the use of medical records for characterizing brain lesions", Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology. Singular Publishig Group Inc.
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Anonymous, 1 yr 46 days ago
Hi clarinda?
 i am jast like you ,a student from kena medical traing college doing a diploma in occupational therapy and looking fowad to fish early october.i am also interested in doing speech therapy because have realised that its services rare to be found here and many people are saffaring .kindly help me acces any college where i can train this .wud be interested in doing your intanship in kenya?
duncan
Anonymous, 1 yr 33 days ago
Hi!
I´m going to finish BA-Speech therapy in Germany. I would like do make my Master in the Netherlands.
Is it possible to make it in English? Is there something interesting which is related to Speech therapy?

Veronika
Anonymous, 1 yr 20 days ago
Do you have any more details about this speech therapist position at the high profile school in Bahrain?
Anonymous, 1 yr 3 days ago
Celestial707,
I am also interested in doing speech therapy in South Africa, but I haven't found much useful information online about requirements and the like. I am also interested in finding out how much of South Africa's speech therapy masters programs transfer to other countries around the world. Have you found any helpful websites in your search yet? 

Thank you, 
Maggie
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