Education for speech-language-hearing therapists is offered at the post-high school level at colleges, institutes for college graduates, and institutes for high-school graduates. All courses are taught in Japanese. The required curriculum is shown in the table below.
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Basic Courses
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Specialized Courses
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| Linguistic and phonetic sciences: linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonetics, experimental phonetics, psychoacoustics, etc. |
Introductory courses: speech-language pathology and audiology |
| Cognitive behavioral sciences: developmental psychology, clinical psychology, psychology of learning, neuropsychology, etc. |
Diagnostic procedure courses: aphasia, higher cortical functions, speech and language delay, articulation, voice, stuttering, dysphagia, dysarthria, and audiology |
| Medical Sciences: anatomy, physiology, pathology, medical ethics, health statistics, etc. |
Intervention procedure courses: in all areas of speech-language pathology and audiology |
| Clinical medicine: internal medicine, rehabilitation medicine, plastic surgery, psychiatry, pediatrics, geriatrics, otorhinolaryngology, clinical neurology, dentistry, etc. |
Clinical practicum: supervised clinical practicum in all areas of speech-language pathology and audiology |
| Social welfare and education |
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Education