Title IV: Professions of speech therapist and orthoptist

The practice of speech and language therapy involves health promotion, prevention, assessment and treatment of disorders of communication, language in all its dimensions, mathematical cognition, speech, voice and oro-myofacial functions. Speech and language therapists provide care for patients of all ages with congenital, developmental or acquired disorders. In particular, they contribute to the development and maintenance of the patient’s autonomy and quality of life, as well as re-establishing a confident…

Persons who have obtained the evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation required for the practice of the profession of speech and language therapist are required to register with the department or body designated for this purpose by the Minister responsible for health, before entering the profession. The registration of these persons is carried out after verification of the supporting documents attesting to their identity and their training qualification or authorisation….

Speech and language therapists may use their evidence of formal qualifications in the language of the State which awarded them. He must indicate the place and establishment where it was obtained. Where the evidence of formal qualifications from the Member State or Party of origin is liable to be confused with evidence of formal qualifications requiring additional training in France, the competent authority may decide that the speech and language…

The organisations issuing the training certificates send these certificates to the service or organisation mentioned in article L. 4341-2 in the form of certified information.

Where available, the certified information referred to in Article L. 4341-2-2 shall serve as supporting documents for the fulfilment of the obligations laid down in Article L. 4341-2.

The diplomas, certificates or qualifications referred to in article L. 4341-2 are the “certificat de capacité d’orthophoniste” established by the Ministers of Education and Health, or one of the diplomas or certificates of study in speech and language therapy established by the Minister of Education prior to the creation of the said certificate. The decree instituting the certificate of qualification in speech and language therapy lays down the conditions for…

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee composed in particular of professionals, grant individual authorisation to practise the profession of speech and language therapist to nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who, without possessing one of the diplomas, certificates or evidence of formal qualifications provided for in Article L. 4341-3,…

Persons who, before 31 December 1973, obtained one of the qualifications listed by order of the ministers responsible for higher education, health and social security, and who ceased to be issued on or after that date, are authorised to carry out, outside the presence of a doctor, acts of re-education for persons with pathological difficulties in acquiring the mechanisms needed to learn to read and spell, irrespective of any intellectual…

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 4341-2, the ministers responsible for higher education and health, after obtaining the opinion of a committee appointed by joint decree, may authorise to continue to practise their profession, either without any limitation, or for one or more establishments or for a specific type of activity, persons who, on 1 January 1964, usually performed acts of re-education “constituting a treatment of pathological anomalies” of the…

A speech and language therapist who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and who is established and legally practises the activities of a speech and language therapist in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may perform professional acts in France on a temporary…