The objective of the Professional training of Speech Therapy is that the student makes a first contact with the applied practice in order to be able to directly observe the work of professionals and to be able to know, also directly, the users of the speech-based interventions and the functioning of work teams in public and private areas. It is an apprenticeship based on participatory observation and direct experience within the professional context.
The Bachelor's Degree of Speech Therapy comprises 4 Professional training, distributed among the second, third and fourth courses. The corresponding internships are carried out in hospitals, in specialized intervention centres in language problems and in schools or centres that have diagnostic and re-education units of language problems associated with different pathologies or delays.
List of work placement centres
The Faculty of Psychology has collaboration agreements, to carry out the Professional Training of Speech Therapy, signed with public and private entities that cover different fields.
University Hospitals of Sant Pau and Vall d'Hebrón, Mataró Hospital, Centers for reeducation and attention to language problems, Centers for child development and early attention (CDIAPs), Centers for educational resources for hearing impaired (CREDAs) and others centers specialized in deafness and serious language disorders, special education centers, rehabilitation centers for language disorders derived from neurological diseases, among others.