How to become an Audiologist or Speech Therapist
Official title: Audiologists and Speech Therapists
Assesses and treats hearing, communication and swallowing disorders caused by illness or injury.
Main tasks
- Assess and treat disorders of articulation, fluency, voice and resonance, language comprehension and expression, swallowing, and delayed language development
- Test hearing or speech and language using special tools or equipment, interpret results and record them in detail in medical records to decide on treatment
- Prescribe suitable aids for hearing loss, speech disorders and related sensory and nerve damage, and show patients how to use them
- Advise on hearing protection and communication
Ways in
- University department: Allied Health degrees, Offered by 44 universities in Taiwan
- Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a audiologist you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 聽力師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 38.
- Licence (national exam): Regulated profession. To practise as a speech therapist you must pass the national Professional and Technical Examination (專門職業及技術人員考試) for 語言治療師 and hold the certificate. Listed in the annex to article 2 of the Enforcement Rules of the Professional and Technical Examinations Act, item 37.
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Average pay: NT$697,000 a year
- Demand for Health and care jobs is projected at about 774,000 in 2024 and about 876,000 in 2030. (+13.2%)
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
How do I become an Audiologist or Speech Therapist?
Ways in include: Allied Health degrees.
How much does an Audiologist or Speech Therapist earn in Taiwan?
Average pay is NT$697,000 a year (Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics).
Is an Audiologist or Speech Therapist a growing career in Taiwan?
Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).
Will AI change the work of an Audiologist or Speech Therapist?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- Ministry of Labor, Department of Statistics: Occupational Wage Survey (職類別薪資調查) (2025 survey (July 2025 monthly, 2024 annual), released 2026-05-29), Open Government Data License, version 1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026