Collective of Speech Therapists: a view from the initial and permanent training of these specialists

Introduction: the implementation of the collective of speech therapists is a necessity in order to take actions to the opening of the courses of studies and continuing training of professionals in the Logopedics studies. Objective: to analyze the significance of the speech therapists collective for the opening of the study courses and continuing training of these specialists. Methods: a pedagogical study in which theoretical, empirical and statistical methods were used to collect, interpret and process information related to the subject. Results: the study revealed the significance of the speech-language therapists collective for the initial and permanent training of the speech-language specialist through the accomplishment of the following functions: organizational, teaching-methodological, development and research, which favors the improvement of the mother tongue, prevention, diagnosis and comprehensive speech-language along with communication disorders. Conclusions: a didactic-methodological strategy was implemented that identifies the speech therapists collective as a subsystem or basic organizational level of the specialty