C-26, r. 189 - Regulation respecting the standards for diploma equivalence or training equivalence for the issue of a permit by the Ordre des orthophonistes et audiologistes du Québec

Schedule Disposition versions

2012-09-01

SCHEDULE I

(s. 5)

                                                                      Minimum
                                                                     credits or
Subject                                                            hours required

(1) Speech-language pathology

Basic sciences:                                                      12 credits
- Anatomy and physiology of the systems basic to                          3
human communication
- Language development                                                    3
- Speech and language sciences                                            3
- Research methodology                                                    3

Professional training:                                               48 credits

- Language disorders in children                                          9
- Language disorders in adults                                            6
- Articulation disorders                                                  3
- Neurologically-based speech disorders                                   3
- Fluency disorders                                                       3
- Voice disorders                                                         3
- Resonance disorders                                                     3
- Audiology and rehabilitation of the hearing-impaired                    6
- Alternative and augmentative communication methods                      3
- Professional practices and issues                                       3
- Initiation to research in speech-language pathology                     3
- Counselling                                                             3

Clinical practicum and internship:                                   350 hours*

- Developmental language disorders                                       40
- Acquired language disorders                                            20
- Fluency disorders                                                      20
- Voice and resonance disorders                                          20
- Articulation disorders                                                 20

(2) Audiology

Basic sciences:                                                      12 credits

- Anatomy and physiology of the phonatory, auditory and                   3
otovestibular systems and their central connections
- Acoustics and psychoacoustics of the auditory system                    3
- Auditory perception                                                     3
- Research methodology                                                    3

Professional training (audiology):                                   48 credits

- Auditory and otovestibular disorders                                    6
- Principles of audiological evaluation                                   9
- Evaluation principles applied to specific populations                   3
- Principles of audiological
rehabilitation:
· technical approaches                                                    6
· non-technical approaches                                                6
- Principles of rehabilitation applied to specific populations            3
- Instrumentation in audiology                                            3
- Speech-language pathology for audiologists                              3
- Professional practices and issues                                       3
- Initiation to research in audiology                                     3
- Counselling                                                             3

Clinical practicum and internship:                                  350 hours**

- Audiological evaluation:                                          100 hours
· needs identification and analysis
· selection and application of diagnostic methods 
and analysis of data
- Audiological habilitation and rehabilitation:
· technical approaches
· non-technical approaches                                          100 hours 

* Of the 350 hours of clinical practicum and internship, at least 50 shall be completed with children, 50 with adults, 25 in the area of assessment and diagnostics, and 100 in the area of habilitation, rehabilitation and reeducation. Those hours of clinical practicum and internship may not include more than 35 hours in audiology.

** Of the 350 hours of training and internship, at least 50 shall be completed with children and 50 with adults. Those hours of training and internship may not include more than 35 hours in orthophony.

O.C. 1141-98, Sch. I.