Experience needed for SALT course.

[Asvan]

Hi.

I am 35 years old. I last studied over 14 years ago. I did A Levels in psychology, history and economics. My degree was in history and social science.

After doing my degree, I worked in various jobs before I had my first child. I have never known to what I wanted to do, but recently I have become very interested in becoming a speech and language therapist. I currently work as a teaching assistant and I have worked with various therapists who come in to work with the children I work with.

I have looked at doing the two year postgraduate course but when I called a few of the universities that offer the course they said my degree isn't relevant and because it was over 5 years ago, it can't be counted. They did say that as I'm a mature student work experience would be considered so now I am at a loss as to what type of work experience is required?

Ant help would be appreciated. Thanks.

If they've said they can't count your degree then the experience is going to have to be fairly specific - working as a SALT Assistant for example. I did a related degree (not SALT but a different allied profession), and the accelerated post-grad course only accepted people with very specific (related) degrees such as psychology, biology, nursing, etc. I think for them to stray from that would have meant someone with many years of very clearly related clinical experience.

I'd ask the universities for more specifics though, because they will each have their own criteria.

Is there a reason you don't want to do the 3 year degree?