The Master joins the second extraordinary pre-enrolment term from the 4th to the 25th November 2024, 12.30 pm.

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT. and Orthodontics Areas provides speech therapists with knowledge and skills concerning the prevention, evaluation and takeover of patients with ENT-related pathologies. 

From a clinical standpoint , it explores speech therapy issues from a phonetics/ENT standpoint, at greater level than the Bachelor’s Degree, providing career opportunities in private, partnered public and public institutions. 

Professionals will acquire the latest skills in speech therapy take-over, concerning ENT pathologies. The course is in line with the protocols and orientations found in international literature, and help professionals to be better integrated also in the European and international context.

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT. and Orthodontics Areas explores hearing impairments and disabilities of the entire life cycle, rehabilitated with cochlear implants or hearing aids; rehabilitation of people with voice disorders, with a focus on professional and artistic voice aspects; prevention and treatment of larynx dysfunctions and/or surgery outcomes of the vocal tract, focusing on how to manage larynx prosthetics and tubes, and on caregiver consultancy. It also covers the assessment and speech therapy intervention, concerning craniofacial malformations, malocclusions, and miofunctional oral disorders. 

The Master includes lessons, workshops, internship, project work, individual study and a final exam. Internships are organized with the students, in suitable premises.

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT. and Orthodontics Areas provides a training opportunity and a new occupational perspective to graduates with a Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Therapy, according to the provisions of Article 16(7) of the Work Agreement of 23 February 2018. 

Career opportunities include the private, public partnered, and public sectors. Professionals can spend their speciality training in the ENT field, by acquiring competences in line with the National Healthcare System, private healthcare and private practice’s needs.

The course is in line with the protocols and orientations found in international literature, and helps professionals to be better integrated also in the European and international context.

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT. and Orthodontics Areas provides training on the following topics:

MANAGING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENT TEAM 

  • Multidisciplinarity in the ENT field

SPEECH THERAPISTS TODAY: CORE RESUME, CORE COMPETENCES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REGISTER

  • History and news of the profession

LEGAL MEDICINE

  • Legal medicine elements, particularly interesting for speech therapists in the ENT field

PUBLIC LAW AND CORPORATE ORGANIZATION

  • Hospital organization in Italy
  • Historical-regulatory evolution of primary care organization
  • Notions of other healthcare service organizational models worldwide
  • Essential care levels
  • Healthcare programming and planning
  • Principles of healthcare economy 
  • Elements of public law

OCCUPATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MEDICINE 

  • Main psychological theories on organizations and on motivation within the occupational psychology field
  • Working in teams
  • Occupational medicine elements useful in the ENT context

TEACHING for SPEECH THERAPY TUTORING 

  • Definition of tutor and tutoring
  • Innovative teaching methods

INTEGRATED ENDOSCOPISTS AND SPEECH THERAPIST DIAGNOSIS 

  • Principles of integration of medical and speech therapy competences during the patient’s endoscopic diagnosis

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN THE ENT FIELD 

  • Evidence-based medicine and research methodology
  • Bibliographic sources: biomedical databases and ENT-related journals
  • Types of ENT publications
  • Systemic reviews/Metanalysis/Guidelines

STATISTICS 

Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics after the Bachelor’s Degree

Category-based: chi-squared test.

CLINICAL PEDAGOGY 

Learning ability

The main learning ability and the most popular learning methods

CLINICAL CARE PATHS 

Managing waiting lists and outcome assessment in the clinical process of an ENT unit

Healthcare verification and evaluation methods and tools (indicators)

TECHNOLOGY AND SPEECH THERAPY 

  • Assistive technology referred to speech therapist and the professions working with them
  • IT aids and their applications during evaluation

PATIENTS WITH HEARING ISSUES: REHABILITATION OF COMPLEX CASES 

  • Complex audiology cases from a medical and speech therapy rehabilitation standpoint

ARTISTIC VOCOLOGY 

  • Artistic vocology from a medical and speech therapy rehabilitation standpoint

ENT ONCOLOGY: SURGERY AND SPEECH THERAPY REHABILITATION 

  • Characteristics of speech therapy take-over in patients with cancer in the head-neck area, with focus on recovery of the phonics and deglutition functions

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS 

  • Provides knowledge and competences for appropriate intervention, based on the patient’s age and type, and the dysphagia severity, according to the EBM

CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATIONS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY TAKE-OVER 

  • Audiological, phonics, orthodontics and rehabilitation aspects in the main craniofacial malformations and syndromes

The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2024/25 will be published on the Italian page of this Master according to the timing provided in the Call.

Information

Health, environment and territory
31/07/2026
70%
15
25
€ 1.672,50
€ 1.006,50
Find the admission titles in the selection notice 24/25.

FAQ

Once a month, on Friday (full day) and Saturday morning, or, if necessary, on Thursday afternoon and Friday (full day). During the two-year course, there will be three-four intensive weeks (Monday-Friday).

Part of the internship will consist of analysing clinical cases in the classroom, and another part will be carried out in the ENT Units, identified as agreed with the Master’s Direction.

Yes, lessons will be held in person only, in the classrooms of the University Hospital of Padua, Via Giustiniani no.2.

The final oral exam will consist of the presentation/discussion of a final project.