Major of Language and Speech Therapy

I am Assist.Prof. Seren Düzenli Öztürk. I am the Head of the Division of Language and Speech Therapy of İzmir Bakırçay University’s Graduate Education Institute. Speech and Language Therapy is a newly developing discipline in our country. Our areas of work and the age range we work in show great variety. For this reason, specialized language and speech therapists are needed, especially in clinics and hospitals. For this reason, we aim to train specialist speech and language therapists, who can follow current theoretical and applied scientific knowledge, who can provide holistic health services with a biopsychosocial perspective, and who can plan advanced scientific research and include their results in the literature. We also aim to train future academic staff members. In our division, we are carrying out studies on understanding the etiology of language, speech, voice and swallowing disorders and doing basic level research on the determination of normative data on these disorders. In addition, we are carrying out studies which are focused on the integration of therapy methods which have been proven effective in the field of healthcare. In addition, we are working on projects that we will carry out jointly with our University's Neuroscience and Cognitive Research Center and Biomedical Technologies and Design Center. We have 3 criteria that forms the basis of our student admission to the division. First of all, the applicants must be graduates of language and speech therapy undergraduate degree. Next, the applicants are ranked according to the grade averages of their scores from ALES (Academic Personnel and Postgraduate Education Entrance Exam) and the scientific preparation exam which is conducted in our department. We would like to have candidates among us who will combine their academic knowledge and clinical experience in order to develop projects which will be integrated into healthcare services in line with professional knowledge and ethical values. These candidates should also want to develop their lifelong learning, problem solving and critical thinking skills