Abstract: Speech therapy in China, as speech pathology in the other countries, is one of important parts in rehabilitation therapy field. With the development of rehabilitation college education, speech therapy was also set as a common test course in college. This field has its particular characteristics within rehabilitation therapy practice in order to improve the effect of teaching during short period class time in college. This article reviewed the curriculum characteristics and class time allocation of speech therapy course in China college education currently, and summarized the curriculum content and characteristics with the speech therapy course of the rehabilitation therapy profession in Chinese college, and analyzed its class time allocation, methods and practice of the teaching techniques. As a result, the practice course was thought to be very important in order to improve the practice course of speech therapy, and arouse the students' interest and understanding with this part. Five new teaching thoughts were introduced to enhance the practice of speech therapy.

Key words: rehabilitation therapy, speech therapy, education