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Logopedics is developing as higher education specialty at South-West University for more than 25 years. Nowadays this is a well-established specialty within the scientific direction of Public Health, successfully accredited by the NAEA in year 2015 for a period of 5 years.

The Department of Logopedics providing training in the field was opened as an independent one after the separation from Special Education in 2002.

The training is delivered by high-qualified lecturers (professors, assoc. professors, assistant professors with PhD) from the Department and other university units.

The curriculum  structure is according to the requirements of IALP (International Association of Logopedists and Phoniatrists) and also meets the standards of CPLOL (Standing Liaison Committee of E.U. Speech and Language Therapists and Logopedists).

The goal of training is to offer to undergraduates thoroughgoing knowledge of speech, language, voice and hearing disorders, etiology, disorders mechanism and symptomatic. Students are trained to know and use diagnostic and therapeutic instruments and measures in order to treat a variety of speech and language disorders in children and adults such us:

• Specific learning disorders
• Motor-speech disorders
• Communication disorders in persons with emotional-behavioral diseases

Communication disorders in children with  multiple disorders

• Communication disorders in psychiatrics
• Communication disorders in children with cerebral palsy
• Articulation disorders
• Language disorders during the childhood
• Acquired language disorders
• Fluency disorders
• Voice disorders
• Hearing disorders
• Communication disorders in children with cleft palate.

If necessary clinician is able to hold consultative work of children with communication disorders, their parents, with adults with communication disorders and their families. The clinician works with a team of ophthalmologists, orthodontists, otorhinolaryngologists, foniatricians, neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and audiologists in specialized clinical institutions, centers for rehabilitation of hearing and speech, diagnostic clinical centers, hospitals.

The high quality of students' training is also due to mean and modern office and therapeutic equipment placed at the Recourse Centre (1995), the University Stuttering Research Centre (2000), the KayPentax Speech Lab (2007), and the faculty Centre of Logopedics for practice and research (2009). Also, clinical practice in Logopedics is run at specialized settings, diagnostic and therapeutic centers, dally care centres, and etc.

Undergraduates in Logopedics who demonstrate high scores in training and are fluent in English or other foreign language may join training abroad via Erasmus+ Programme for student exchange for the duration of one term. There have been the following bilateral agreements until the peresent: University of Gent, Belgium; University Ruhr, Bochum, Germany; KATHO, Belgium; University of La sapience, Italy; University Maria-Curie Sklodowska, Poland; University of Stockholm, Sweden; University of Eskisehir, Turkey, etc.

The lecturers from the Department are participating in international programmes for academic exchange and welcomes visiting lecturers from EU universities, US and others.

The Bachelors Programme in Logopedics is the first university degree only fulltime enrolment, four years of training. Students are rewarded 240 ECTS for the entire period of training which is a basis for entering Masters' degree at SWU, another Bulgarian universities or abroad.

Logopedics at SWU is the first Bulgarian independent specialty in the scientific and professional field, and is attracting many young people in Bulgarian and from nearby countries. The opportunities for placement are various, including logopedic and diagnostic centres, clinics, hospitals, social settings, both state and private.