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DIRECTORY OF ETQAS AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES<br />

THE PROFESSIONAL BOARD FOR SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING<br />

Legislation<br />

To assure relevant and excellent speech, language and hearing services to meet the needs of<br />

a diverse SA society.<br />

Vision<br />

A professional body overseeing the Speech, Language and Hearing Professions under the<br />

Health <strong>Professional</strong> (Act No. 56 of 1974).<br />

Strategic Attitudes<br />

❐ Proactive<br />

❐ Transforming<br />

❐ Informing.<br />

Strategic Objectives<br />

❐ A new professional practice framework in place, aligned with international professional<br />

best practice<br />

❐ Significantly enhanced capacity to serve South African population better, accessibility,<br />

affordability<br />

❐ An effectively and efficiently functioning Board, visible and actively engaging respective<br />

role players<br />

❐ Dynamic protection of scope of profession.<br />

Functions<br />

Registration of professionals.<br />

<strong>Professional</strong> Qualifications<br />

The following professions are registered under the auspices of the <strong>Professional</strong> Board for<br />

Speech, Language and Hearing namely:<br />

❐ Supplementary Hearing Aid Acousticians<br />

❐ Community Speech and Hearing Workers<br />

❐ Student Community Speech and Hearing Workers<br />

❐ Speech Hearing and Correctionists<br />

❐ Student Speech Hearing and Correctionists<br />

❐ Supplementary Audiologists<br />

❐ Student Supplementary Audiologists<br />

❐ Supplementary Speech Therapists and Audiologists<br />

❐ Student Supplementary Speech Therapists and Audiologists<br />

❐ Speech Therapists<br />

❐ Student Speech Therapists<br />

❐ Speech Therapist and Audiologists<br />

❐ Speech Therapy Assistants<br />

❐ Audiometricians<br />

❐ Student Audiometricians<br />

❐ Audiologists<br />

❐ Student Audiologists<br />

❐ Hearing Aid Acousticians<br />

❐ Student Hearing Aid Acousticians.<br />

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