University Master's Degree in Communication and Language Disorders

As a professional, do you want to make your decisions based on the best available evidence?
Do you want to contribute to evidence-based practice in the field of communication and language disorders and nonverbal oral functions?

This Master's degree trains students in the research, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of speech and voice disorders, non-verbal oral functions, language and other forms of communication in people of any age. It also offers training in the planning and implementation of preventive interventions and for the improvement of people's verbal and communicative functions.

This is training for speech therapists and psychologists to access multidisciplinary care teams for children with communication disorders, or hospital departments for people with language and voice problems or non-verbal oral functions. It also gives teachers an in-depth view of language acquisition difficulties and communication disorders of their students. The Master's degree offers advanced training in this field of knowledge that will allow you to improve your professional and research activity.

Career options

The master's degree provides students with the skills needed to conduct research, evaluations and interventions in the field of communication and language disorders, not only regarding their effects on those suffering from these disorders but also in the educational environments in which they find themselves, always from a professional perspective based on the prior training of the student. For example, graduates in speech therapy and psychology will be prepared to form part of multidisciplinary groups aiding students with communication disorders, as well as in hospital units working with patients presenting different types of language difficulties. Other specialists taking this master's degree will acquire advanced training in this field of knowledge which will allow them to improve their professional and research activities.
 
The main professional options for specialists in communication and language disorders include:

• Private Speech Therapist.
• Development Centres for Precocious Children (CDIAP).
• Health institutes of the private sector.
• Mental health rehabilitation services for adults (day centres).
• Special education centres for children and adolescents.
• Resource centres for the hearing impaired, run by the Government of Catalonia (CREDA).
• Centres and workshops for people with disabilities and special needs.
• Social and health centres and elderly care homes.
• Associations focused on communication pathologies.
• Neuropsychological diagnosis and rehabilitation units.
• Social welfare centres for children and adolescents in risk of social exclusion.
• Educational action residential centres (Centres Residencials d'Acció Educativa)
• Psychological first aid centres (Primers Auxilis Psicològics).
• Management and health planning services.
• Research: universities and research centres/institutes.
• Training, teaching and supervising future professionals.
• Direction, administration and/or management tasks: collaboration in tasks within the health system.

Coordinator university:

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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