As a professional, self-regulatory body, the NZSTA must produce professional standards, guidelines, and policy documents to guide and govern NZSTA members' practice and empower NZSTA members to provide excellent services to our communities.
Clinical Practice
- NZSTA Speech-language Therapists Scope of Practice
- Working in the Justice System - scope of practice statement
- NZSTA Infection Control Standards (updated 2022) - standards
- Surgical Voice Restoration – framework
- Surgical Voice Restoration – position statement
- Surgical Voice Restoration - register
- Rapid Prompting Method - position statement
- Speech-Language Therapy Assistant / Kaiāwhina - position paper
- Speech-language Therapists Working with Individuals with Orofacial Cleft and Velopharyngeal Incompetence - guideline
Supervision & Continuing Professional Development
- NZSTA Supervision in Aotearoa for Speech-language Therapists - position statement (aka policy)
- NZSTA Continuing Development (CPD) - framework
- Supervision Log - use the supervision portal via your member profile.
Dysphagia
- NZSTA Risk Feeding - guideline
- NZSTA Clinical Practice Guideline for Videofluoroscopic Study of Swallowing (VFSS) - guideline
- NZSTA Competency Framework for VFSS - Adults - competency framework
- Use of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Speech and Swallowing Rehabilitation - position statement - position statement
- Use of Ultrasound for Swallowing and Upper Airway Assessment - position statement
Paediatrics only
- NZSTA Clinical Practice Paediatric dysphagia - guideline
Modified Diet Terminology
Tracheostomy & Laryngology
- NZSTA Tracheostomy Competency - framework
- NZSTA Tracheostomy Practice - guideline
- NZSTA Tracheostomy Register Sept 2023
- NZSTA Best Clinical Principles in Laryngology
- Flexible Laryngoscopy Competency - framework
Endoscopy
- New Zealand FEES Register – This register provides speech-language therapists with a list of Level 3-6 FEES SLTs across the country. This list is updated every six months.
- Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
(FEES) in adults and children in New Zealand - Practice standards - Competency Framework: Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing
(FEES) - NZSTA Recommended FEES procedure
- NZSTA Recommended FEES report templates
