Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a speech and language therapist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a speech and language therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Speech and language therapists focus on the aetiology, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of communication and swallowing disorders in people of all ages in order to help them maintain, promote, improve, initiate, or recover the ability to communicate both verbally and nonverbally. They address the development of language, speech, vocal and hearing functions, and disorders and disabilities in the cranial, facial, and oral area.

Also known as psychomotor specialist, logopaedist, paediatric speech and language therapist, language therapist, logopaedics therapist, speech-language pathologist, speech therapist, language therapy practitioner, speech pathologist, practitioner in speech and language therapy, speech therapy practitioner, paediatric speech therapist.

Professionals 87 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare assistant, 64%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare assistant 64% covered physiotherapy assistant 63% covered audiologist 62% covered respiratory therapy technician 61% covered orthoptist 61% covered speech and language thera… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from speech and language therapist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a speech and language therapist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A speech and language therapist needs 73 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • behavioural neurology health and welfare
  • counsel on communication disorders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • counsel patients on improving speech communication, collaboration and creativity
  • diagnose speech disorders information skills
  • evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems information skills
  • facial gymnastics health and welfare
  • logopaedics health and welfare
  • otorhinolaryngologic conditions health and welfare
  • phoniatrics health and welfare
  • promote good habits to avoid communication disorders communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a speech and language therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Speech and language therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a speech and language therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.