Speech therapy knowledge. A descriptive study
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https://doi.org/10.17561/riai.v6.n2.1Keywords:
speech therapy, questionnaire, knowledge, image, professionAbstract
The Speech-Language Therapy is a health discipline that do assessment, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and study of language, speech, voice, audiology and non-verbal oral functions disorder, pathologies and disturbances, from babies to the oldest. Currently there are few studies where the knowledge of the Spanish population about speech therapy is investigated. Therefore, this research aims to know what knowledge they have about the Speech-Language Therapy. A study was carried out through an online questionnaire of 34 questions, which analyzed aspects such as the image of the speech therapist, the professional work of the speech-language therapist and the assessment of speech therapy. The sample was 299 people, with a sub-sample of 64 because were put away who study or studied Speech-Language Therapy, who are speech-language pathologist, who have attended the speech-language pathologist or who know someone related to Speech-Language Therapy. Afterwards, the results were analyzed and it was concluded that Speech-Language Therapy is known by the population although there is some misinformation about some areas. It recommended research on a larger scale, to achieve more accurate results.
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