Perception of Speech and Language Therapy Student’s To Their Profession

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to explore the perception of speech and language therapy students. Objectives: To identify the factors to influence their study selection, to figure out the obstacles are faced by SLT student, to determine their satisfaction level as SLT student, determine the confidence level of SLT students. Methodology: Face to face qualitative research approach is applied with open ended question form. Total number of sample was 08. Results: Most of the student chose SLT because it is a medical related profession, huge opportunity to serving mankind, most of them are satisfied but not sure about the future and job opportunity, some of them were not satisfied earlier, most of them are confident and states increase opportunity will increase their confident level. They perceived problems like lack of opportunities for job and higher study, lack of knowledge among people and other professionals, no council and mal practice. Conclusion: In conclusion it can be said that, this profession is facing a lot of obstacles and difficulties like lack of opportunities for job and higher study, lack of knowledge among people and other health professionals, no council about SLT. So more orientation in people about SLT is recommended. It is good news that physiotherapy is included in health policy of Bangladesh, but there is no specific guideline about working area. So more specification of about SLT should be included in health policy. Government should create post for the SLT. Keyword: Speech and language therapy, Profession.