HC Deb 17 July 1972 vol 841 cc35-6W
Mr. Donald Stewart

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has for increasing the number of speech therapists in Scotland.

Mr. Gordon Campbell

In conjunction with Glasgow University, the School of Speech Therapy at Jordanhill College, Glasgow, is introducing next session a course leading to the degree of B.Ed. in speech pathology and therapeutics; and a further addition to existing training facilities is in prospect with the likely introduction of a course in speech therapy at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen. The wider aspects will be considered further in the light of the forthcoming report of the Committee on Speech Therapy Services under the chairmanship of Professor Randolph Quirk.