Unit description

Enables allied health students to engage with and contribute (within an inter-professional practice context) to the assessment, differential diagnostic and recommendation process for adult and child clients. Students learn to draw on profession specific skills to deal with a variety of health issues and problems.

Unit content

1. Overview of investigation processes (eg observation, case history collection, behaviour sampling, and documentation). 
2. Review of learning to date and literature regarding principles related to assessment, interpretation, intervention and recommendations. Supervised clinical practice of: 
3. Assessment of clients across two clinic sessions over weeks. 
4. Analysis and interpretation of findings from client assessments. 
5. Case presentation of findings on client assessments to clinical educators and student group and discussion of plans for clients. 
6. Writing diagnostic reports on clients. 
7. Providing informative counselling regarding findings pertaining to clinical data to clients and families. 
8. Self-evaluation of clinical performance during a mid-placement formative assessment (e.g. COMPASS for Speech Pathology students or equivalent tool to measure competencies for clinical practice). 
9. Second cycle of conducting assessments on clients over two sessions and reporting to clients on findings of assessment and recommendations during a third clinic session. 
10. Reflection on learning in relation to range indicators, related disorders, scope of practice broadly for adults and children. 
11. Reflection on issues in investigation, documentation, analysis, interpretation and planning evidence based practices, as well as engaging with the supervision and feedback process.

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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