Let me tell you a little about speech therapists.
In Japan, speech therapiy became a profession with national licensure in 1997.
This approval came 32 years after it did for other rehabilitation specialty areas, and there are probably a lot of people in Japan who don’t know about speech therapy.
Right now, there are about 22,000 nationally licensed speech therapists in Japan.
There is a legally required program of study that one must take to become a speech therapist.
This entails going to school for a minimum of two years, maybe a lot more. I graduated from a school with a two year program, but it was rather difficult because of the great number of required courses.
Speech therapists can find many different positions, such as at hospitals, nursing homes, day service facilities, special care schools, hearing aid companies, and so on.
The work of a speech therapist consists primarily of communication training and rehabilitation of eating and drinking problems.
In Japan, where the population is rapidly aging, there are a lot of people who are succumbing to dysphagia due to sickness or old age.
There are still many places that lack speech therapists, and it is said that this profession will be in demand for years to come.
Aya Miyata
English by Chay Schiller
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I think speech therapy is a great profession. I’m glad to know that you are committed to helping people in this area. I’d like to learn more about speech therapy and the projected number of people who will need it in years to come. What does your job entail?
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I’m glad you are interested in speech therapy. I’m planning to write more about speech therapy.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand “job entail” mean
. It means worth of job?
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Hello Aya,
What I mean by what your job entails is, what are your duties, what types of things do you do in your work?
Cedric
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Hello Cedric,
Thank you for explanation.
My job entails is that patients and their family spend better life.
“Better life” might be nearly life of premorbid or taking a spoon of yoghurt. I want to achieve what patients and their family hope as much as possible. Therefore, I evaluate their functions, make plan of training,contrive a way of compensation.
I’m going to write details with on article.
Aya
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