Do speech therapists and speech pathologists have to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet as part of their profession? They might want to learn it, but my question really is: are they required to learn it?
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3Are you asking about legal requirements, or practical requirements (e.g. an engineer effectively "has to" know calculus)? – user6726 Jun 24 '17 at 14:45
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2In my country (Brazil) speech pathologists took basic phonetics classes with us linguists, as a required first-year subject in their undergraduate course. So I expect speech pathologists are required to learn it in order to graduate. They probably also study their own extensions to the IPA after doing basic phonetics. – melissa_boiko Jun 24 '17 at 17:01
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Speech pathology is treated as applied linguistics in every country where I'm familiar with the training of speech pathologists. Particularly with phonetics; they have to know phonetics really well, because they deal with it clinically every day. – jlawler Jun 25 '17 at 1:13
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We cannot answer the question unless you specify the answers to 1) Required by whom? 2) Required for what purpose? And possibly (depending on the answers to 1 and 2): 3) In what jursidiction? – Colin Fine Jun 25 '17 at 20:03
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There is one further point that needs to be clarified: learn how well? Generally, phoneticians have to learn the IPA totally save for the disordered extensions; linguists have to learn errrm 50% of it; I believe that SPHS students only have to learn the English subset (and maybe the disordered extension, depending on institution). That would differ in France, Germany, Greece, etc. – user6726 Jun 26 '17 at 1:12
Before I retired (7 years ago) I taught a linguistics course in articulatory phonetics from time to time. About half my class were undergraduate majors in Speech Pathology. So that course was clearly a requirement for Speech Path at that time.
I used IPA in the course, but there was never a requirement to learn IPA. Linguistics is not about learning notations. You can just look at a chart for that.
