Faculty of Education Speech

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Faculty of EducationSpeech Hearing Sciences

• Information Day seminar
• (Dr Lydia So)

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Agenda

• 1. Information about the course
• Qualification upon graduation
• Competency upon graduation
• Entrance requirement
• Course content
• 2. Questions and answers

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Why applying for the Speech Hearing Sciences
course?

• A helping profession medical and educational
  settings
• Strong demand for speech therapists
• Good career prospects
• Clinical speech therapist, senior speech
  therapist
• Academic postgraduate studies and research

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Qualification competency upon graduation

• A professional qualification
• Skills in assessing and treating people with
  speech/language disabilities
• Good presentation skills
• Good communication skills

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Entrance requirement

• 2007-2008 average grade B-C
• Mainly consider applicants in Band A
• Band A applicants may be interviewed
• Ordering of choices is important and may affect
  your other choices

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Course content

• Problem-based learning (http//www.hku.hk/speech/p
  bl/index.htm)
• Small group, self-directed
• Case method
• Students to explore the problem, create
  hypotheses, identify learning issues
• Skills workshops
• Clinics
• Master lectures

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Employment situations (2006-08)
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Time taken to secure employment
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Employment sectors
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Employers
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Basic monthly salary
B.Sc. (Speech and Hearing Sciences)
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• Source
• Information from Careers Education and Placement
  Center Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences