title: Education of logopedists or speech-language pathologists in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Poland and Russia.
abstract: This article provides an overview of student training programs in logopedics in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Poland and the Russian Federation. The data were collected using a special questionnaire developed by Söderpalm in 2006 and supplemented by the author. Bachelor's, master's and PhD programs in the field of pure logopedics no longer exist in some countries. In other locations, logopedics is included as a part of special education student training. In all cases, student education in logopedics is centralized in the universities. Educational programs are accredited by national agencies for accreditation or evaluation or by the respective Ministries of Education.
authors.affiliation: Department of Logopedics, South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. doby_logo @ abv.bg
authors.forename: Dobrinka
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Georgieva
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D002031:Bulgaria; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland; D018843:Republic of North Macedonia; D012426:Russia; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires