Joint Professional Practice: Language and Communication (Joint award with City University), MSc, University College London (UCL)

About Joint Professional Practice: Language and Communication (Joint award with City University), MSc - at University College London (UCL)

This masters degree is a joint award with City University

This masters degree will:

• give you a detailed understanding of special educational needs in relation to children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and the relevant current legislation
• enhance your knowledge of how children develop speech, language, literacy and numeracy
• develop your awareness of the social and emotional development and needs of children with SLCN
• provide information about assessment processes and intervention procedures for children with SLCN
• focus on language and communication needs from an educational, health and social perspective.

This masters degree provides the opportunity to:

• study the first masters-level programme to be set within the Joint Professional Development Framework initiated by the children's communication charity I CAN
• gain a qualification that is endorsed by the Department for Education, the Department of Health, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Teaching Agency
• take some modules at City University.

Qualified teachers who have an interest in SLCN. Speech and language therapists (including early years practitioners) working with children and young people with SLCN.

A good first degree in a relevant subject, plus a teaching qualification or a professional qualification in speech and language therapy. It is desirable for applicants to have appropriate experience of educational settings and/or in special educational needs, or working with children with SLCN.

• Concepts and contexts of special and inclusive education
• Language learning and development
• Research design and statistics
• Social, emotional and behavioural development in children with SLCN.

• Evidence-based practice in education and health
• Language development
• Clinical management
• Developmental language impairment
• Research, design and statistics
• Understanding and assessing dyslexia
• Reading and spelling difficulties.

By coursework and a dissertation of 12,000 words.

Mixed mode, including face-to-face sessions at the IOE and/or City University, and online learning.

Graduates of this masters degree are currently working as:

• speech and language therapist for a London NHS trust
• specific learning difficulties coordinator in an independent special school
• coordinator of a speech and language therapy service.

• Concepts and Contexts of Special and Inclusive Education
• Evidence Based Practice (City)*
• Foundations In Research Methods
• Language, Learning and Development (City)*
• Leadership and Management in Special Educational Needs
• Social, emotional and behavioural development in children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs

• Developmental Language Impairment (City)
• Evidence Based Practice (City)*
• Leadership and Management in Special Educational Needs
• Literacy Development

Entry requirements

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