Speech Therapy is a health profession that deals with human communication, its disorders and variations. It is focused on the areas of hearing, language, speech, voice and oral-pharyngeal function, which can be affected by biological, psychological or social causes that affect the communicative well-being of people and their quality of life.

In this sense, the speech therapist is the ideal professional for its approach due to the scientific and deep knowledge of human communication as a sphere of personal and social development. His actions are oriented to the identification of the communicative needs of the population, evaluation, diagnosis and intervention of the communication disorders and alterations in the educational, social wellbeing, health and business areas; he is a manager of projects and researches that contribute to the development of the individual, communities and profession.

Applicant profile

Young high school graduate with interest in understanding the process of human communication in several situations and contexts.

Graduate profile 

The Speech Therapist of the Maria Cano University Foundation defines himself as a professional with critical thinking, autonomous with social commitment and glocal vision, entrepreneur and innovator, expert in Human Communication, its disorders and the processes that concern him are language, speech, voice, hearing and oral pharyngeal function.

His / Her actions are aimed at:

• Prevention of communication disorders and promotion of communicative health through the administration of programs that guide and educate the community, taking into account the current public policies of integral health care.
• Evaluation of communication disorders and determination of specific diagnoses;
• Therapeutic intervention for people with communication problems,
• Advice to educators, family and interested people to enable their active participation in the prevention and care of communication difficulties;
• Management of social projects according to the existing normative dispositions for the exercise of the profession.
• Research on inherent aspects to the disciplinary and interdisciplinary dimension of Speech Therapy.