Bachelor (Honours)
Speech pathologists assist individuals with communication, speech, swallowing, and feeding difficulties. This course provides knowledge in speech and language development, clinical reasoning, and practical skills, culminating in supervised clinical placements and an honours project.
Speech pathologists help people of all ages who have trouble communicating with others or difficulty drinking and eating safely.
As a speech pathologist, you may help children develop speech, language and literacy, provide feeding advice to parents of a baby born with cleft palate, use technology to enable communication, and support adults after a stroke, traumatic brain injury or onset of illness. You will work alongside other health and education professionals in hospitals and communities.
In this course, you'll develop your knowledge of typical and atypical speech and language development, along with the mechanisms underlying acute and chronic conditions that can impair swallowing and communication. You'll also learn clinical reasoning and practical skills, applying them to diverse cases.
In your first year, you'll study communication science units and interprofessional course units with students from other health science disciplines. You'll then delve into key practice areas, building the skills and knowledge needed to assess, diagnose and manage a range of client cases.
As your skills mature, you'll apply them during supervised clinical placements in our on-campus clinics and various community settings. This includes opportunities for rural, remote and international fieldwork experiences.
In your final year, you will complete supervised clinical placements while undertaking an individual research or collaborative professional honours project.
You'll graduate with the expertise and confidence to begin your career as a speech pathologist.
This can be a physically and mentally challenging course. Please familiarise yourself with the inherent requirements before applying.
What you need in order to get into this course. There are different pathway options depending on your level of work and education experience.
Subjects you must have studied in high school to be eligible for entry into a course.
At least one ATAR science course from the following list: Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Human Biology, Integrated Science, Physics or Psychology.
High school subjects that aren't essential for entry into the course, but provide a good foundation.
At least Mathematics Applications ATAR
Please see our correlation comparability for previous TEE subjects, WACE courses and WACE ATAR courses.
StepUp grants additional ATAR points to help eligible students qualify for admission.
Successful StepUp Entry and StepUp Equity Adjustment Admission Pathway (StepUp Bonus) applicants will be eligible to be considered for admission into this course.
If you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant who hasn't met Curtin's minimum admissions criteria, the Centre for Aboriginal Studies offers bridging courses that are tailored to help you gain entry into this course.
The Skills for Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) is a national test for those who don't meet university admission criteria. STAT can be used to meet entry criteria for some courses, or as a way to satisfy Curtin's English proficiency requirements.
Not accepted. May be used to demonstrate English competence.
Curtin requires all applicants to demonstrate proficiency in English. Specific English requirements for this course are outlined in the IELTS table below.
You may demonstrate English proficiency using the following tests and qualifications.
Please note that each campus has different application deadlines. View our application deadlines page for further information.