title: Japanese speech therapy (logopedics) education after the presentation of the education guidelines in the 1995 IALP general assembly.
abstract: The background of the education system for Japanese speech therapists (logopedists) is reported. It took nearly 40 years for speech therapists and medical doctors to come to a consensus in order to define the status and educational system for the 1997 Law for Japanese Speech Therapists. Unfortunately, the IALP Education Guidelines of 1995 received little respect in the process of long negotiation. The present situation and the future goals for Japanese speech therapists are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Sophia University Research Center for Communication Disorders, Tokyo, Japan. iitaka@sophia.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kyoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iitaka
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends