Appearing in childhood or later, following an illness or an accident, language, speech and voice disorders constitute a handicap that can be treated through rehabilitation sessions with a speech therapist. .
But you still have to find one ...
Give you back your voice
A relatively recent medical profession - legal status was obtained in 1964 - speech therapy focuses on everything that has to do with our ability to express ourselves. A wide field of intervention which can encompass learning difficulties and illiteracy, but also speech, breathing and swallowing disorders after an illness, such as cancer for example, or even language disorders after a stroke.
From early childhood to the end of life, a wide variety of patients are therefore called upon to consult a speech therapist.
The latter will begin by drawing up an assessment to determine the nature of the disorders and propose appropriate rehabilitation sessions to treat them.
It can be to facilitate communication, to fight against mutism, to learn to manage a stuttering, to restore confidence, to focus the work on the auditory perception or to carry out repeated exercises.
The methods are numerous and depend on the pathology and the patient.
Insufficient supply
As of January 1, 2019, there were 25,607 speech therapists in France, according to Drees. A profession almost exclusively female - 96.8% women - and mainly exercised in a liberal capacity (20,787 liberal or mixed, 1,876 hospital workers and 2,868 other employees). But with an average density of 38.2 professionals per 100,000 inhabitants, practitioners are overwhelmed and you sometimes have to wait very long months to get an appointment.
The shortage is all the greater as the demand increases.
Sending his child for consultation as soon as he has difficulties in class has indeed become a reflex for most parents who do not know how to determine whether the problem is speech therapy or a need for academic support.
Similarly, the aging of the population is leading to increased care in order to slow the progression of degenerative diseases or to recover from a stroke.
An underpaid profession
Speech therapists have been denouncing their working conditions for several years. In 2020, the National Federation of the profession launched a petition aimed, among other things, at raising salaries in hospitals and increasing the number of students. Because if the
numerus clausus
is a brake on activity, the shortage of certain territories is also explained by the meager remuneration of professionals working as employees.
With pay revolving around 1,400 euros net per month at the start of their career in hospitals and medico-social centers - i.e. the salary of a bac + 2 diploma instead of bac + 5 -, speech therapists prefer to turn to the liberal sector.
Consequence: positions left vacant in public structures and patients storming overcrowded private practices.
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Five years of study
Are you interested in the profession?
You have to go through five years of post-baccalaureate studies in a university training center in speech therapy (CFUO) in order to obtain the speech therapist capacity certificate (a master's degree diploma), which is essential for exercising this profession.
The program includes theoretical courses in anatomy, acoustic physics but also linguistics and psychology, not to mention the completion of internships and a thesis.
The entrance examination is subject to a
numerus clausus
which limits the number of places available.
At the start of the 2020 school year, 960 students were able to join the twenty or so training centers in the region.
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