Pregrado Fonoaudiologia Popayán

Speech Pathology

What is Speech Pathology?

Speech-language Pathology and Audiology is a health profession that deals with human communication, its disorders and variations. This communication is manifested in the person’s ability to relate with others through skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. However, these skills may get to be diminished or altered by biological causes, psychological or social issues affecting the well-being and the quality of life of each person, triggering communication disorders.

In this sense, a phonoaudiologist plays a professional role in the health area, as well as in educational and social welfare. Diagnoses communicative actions are performed in terms of the population needs, such as evaluating, identifying, and intervening the disorders and alterations of the communication in a timely and efficient manner. It is also the interest of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, the communication for the hearing impaired, and therefore recognizes that this community presents a variation in its communication and thus requires Phono audiological support in order to ensure their communicative well-being.

Curriculum
Semesters covered:
9 semesters
Number of credits:
160 credits
Admission periodicity:
semestral
Methodology:
face-to-face
Tuition fee 2025:
$5.283.716 per semester

SNIES: 109249
Qualified register: 007192 on the 12th of may 2020
Effect for seven years.

Professional profile:

The Speech Pathologist at the María Cano University Foundation is a professional with critical thinking, problem-solving skills, social commitment and glocal vision, entrepreneurs and innovators, who focus their actions on communicative well-being, recognizing both the individual variables and those of the environment that influence this. He has extensive knowledge of human communication, its alterations and variations, from the psychobiological areas of language, hearing, speech, voice and oral-pharyngeal function, and its approach through the professional domains of:

• Promotion of communicative health
• Prevention of communication disorders
• Evaluation and diagnosis of communicative health conditions
• Integral rehabilitation
• Follow-up and monitoring of communicative health programs and their determinants
• Research, entrepreneurship and innovation

The above, seeking to contribute to the development and transformation of people, communities and organizations, from the identification and addressing of their communication needs.

Occupational profile

Phono audiologists perform in the sectors of health, education, industry and social welfare, developing welfare activities (assessment, determination of communicative diagnostics and therapeutic intervention), promotion, prevention, counseling, administration, research and consulting. In the same manner, It is also possible to exercise through teaching in higher education programs related to such area at formal or non-formal level.

Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs

Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant

To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:

  1. Fill out the online registration form
  2. Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $141.144
  3. At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:
  • Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
  • Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
  • A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
  • A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
  • Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.
  1. Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.

*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.

Coordinator

Rosa Ángela Macías Rosero
rosa.macias@fumc.edu.co
Celular 300 912 1683 Ext.702

Curriculum

Study plan

Semestres

Créditos

Mathematical logic 2
Morphophysiology I 3
Human development 2
Chair Maria Cano 2
Communication techniques 2
Epistemology 2
Introduction to health 2
Introduction speech therapy 2
TOTAL 17

Créditos 17

Créditos

Computing 2
Environmental management 2
Morphophysiology II 4
Biochemistry 3
Research methodology I 2
Ethics 2
Communication theories 2
TOTAL 17

Créditos 17

Créditos

  • Research methodology II 2
    Projects formulation 3
    Disability 2
    Neurophysiology 4
    Linguistic Fundamentals I 3
    Speech and hearing anatomy 3
    Elective 1
    TOTAL 18

Créditos 18

Créditos

  • Statistics 3
    Project evaluation 3
    Psychopathology 2
    Linguistic Fundamentals II 3
    Audiology I 4
    Speech Assessment and Intervention 4
    TOTAL 19

Créditos 19

Créditos

  • Language development and stimulation 4
    Language process literacy 3
    Audiology II 4
    Voice assessment and intervention 4
    Public health 4
    TOTAL 19

Créditos 19

Créditos

Epidemiology 2
Oral and pharyngeal function 2
Child Language Assessment and Intervention 3
Evaluation in language intervention literacy 3
Community processes 4
Occupational Health and Phonoaudiology 3
Communication of the deaf 3
TOTAL 20

Créditos 19

Créditos

Adult language assessment and intervention 4
Health Services Administration 2
Myofunctional assessment and intervention 2
Practice I 10
TOTAL 18

Créditos 18

Créditos

Entrepreneurship I 2
Program elective 2
Affairs professionals 2
Practice II 10
TOTAL 16

Créditos 16

Créditos

Entrepreneurship II 2
Practice III 10
Deepening line 4
TOTAL 16
TOTAL PROGRAM CREDITS 160

Créditos 16