Speech Therapy and Language Pathology fall under the allied health professions, where students focus on the fundamentals and methods aimed at addressing hearing and speech problems in young children through diagnosing cases and initiating specific therapy programs.
Subjects taught in Speech Therapy or known as "Speech Therapy and Language Pathology" specialization include language acquisition theories, phonetics, phonetics laboratory, clinical cases of speech disorders, auditory and speech perception, acoustics, audiology, and others.
As for the duration of studying Speech Therapy and Language Pathology specialization in Turkey, it is four years preceded by a preparatory year to learn the language of instruction, which is usually either Turkish or English.