adjust hearing aids to suit the individual needs of the patient. The knowledge I gained during my university years has provided insight into the overall picture of the customer’s background and situation. Lately, we often hear news stories about celebrities dying from aspiration pneumonia. Preventing that falls within the field in which we speech-language-hearing therapists work. I believe STs will become a more sought-after qualification in the future.The qualifications for speech-language-hearing therapists were only established in 1997. There still aren’t enough of us. It’s not a well-known qualification, but if there are more of us, more people could return to being active members of society. There’d be more energetic elderly people around. I believe this qualification will also help parents busy raising children with disabilities and people who provide care for their family members.The ST qualification is a national qualification required to pro-vide professional services to people with problems in verbal communication, eating, and swallowing. Verbal communica-tion troubles may arise from various illnesses, such as aphasia after a stroke, hearing impairments, delayed language develop-ment, voice and pronunciation disorders, and other conditions. They can be observed in a wide range of patients, from chil-dren to the elderly. STs are trained to identify the nature and mechanisms that give rise to these problems; to conduct tests and assessments to find ways to cope with them; and to offer the necessary training, guidance, advice, and other assistance.Interview and article by Miyuki TakahashiWhat is a speech-language-hearing therapist (ST)?I studied speech, language, and hearing therapy. In my freshman year, I took some general education courses with my friends from other departments, but as the years passed, I became busier with classes in specialized areas. The most difficult part was the on-site training at a medical institution. We were assigned to actual patients. I felt the weight of responsibility knowing how their rehabilitation went under my guidance would influence their future lives. But it was also really rewarding. I took the national examination in February of my senior year at the university. The results were announced in March. Although most of the people who pass the exam go on to work at medical institutions, I found myself fascinated with the field of hearing and found a job at Rion. Currently, I’m performing fittings for hearing aids at the Rionet Center in Shinjuku and at outpatient clinics for hearing aids at hospitals.I think it’s really important to sugge-st the most appropriate hearing aids to my customers by making the most of the basic knowledge in medicine I’ve gained during my four years at university. For example, in the case of hearing loss caused by a congenital disorder or disease, a significant change in hear-ing ability can occur as the disease progresses. In the case of children, hearing problems can significantly affect their language development. I consult with the ST at the hospital to Part 1 in the series: Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists (ST)This section is a new series of articles introducing the diverse qualifications held by Rion’s employees.This first part will introduce the qualifications of STs. What are these qualifications? Our ST will describe them.Tamae OkunaSales Department, Medical Instrument Divi-sion. She joined the company in 2019 and has been part of the Rionet Center for five years, where her approach is to provide customer service from the customer's perspective. Her primary role involves fitting hearing aids, both at the Rionet Center in Shinjuku and at outpatient clinics in hospitals.20Part 1 in the series: To become qualified as a ST, you have to go through the education and training program required by law and pass the national exam. In my case, after graduating from high school, I enrolled in a university in Aichi prefecture where Helping to keep people happyA speech-language-hearing therapi-st (ST) qualification is associated with rehabilitation. Physical therapists and occupational therapists, who are also active in the field of rehabilitation, are specialists in the rehabilitation of the body; we STs specialize in problems from the neck up. We specifically support the rehabilitation of people with disabilities involving speech, hearing, and eating. Under the supervision of a physician, we explore the cause of the disability and provide training accordingly. This may involve training to strengthen muscles for people with eating and swallowing disorders and even trying to find a safe posture to lean over for eating. We try not just to help a patient do what they cannot do now, we consider ways to make the most of what they can still do.I first became interested in this qualification because many of my relatives work in the medical field, and I was looking to get a medical qualification. As a child, I was always close to my grandmother. I thought it would be nice to have a job where I could interact with the elderly. Also, I love communicating with people and eating, so I wanted to help people protect the source of such basic human happiness.AND Speech-Language-Hearing TherapistsLICENSING QUALIFICATIONS
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