Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast |
Unit description
Students participate in 96hrs of work integrated learning for up to 12 weeks to demonstrate, with a high level of support, competence in assessment of, and intervention for, paediatric clients presenting with communication concerns. Students apply clinical reasoning, professional and interdisciplinary skills to a range of client presentations from diverse service delivery and care settings.
Unit content
- Preparing for placement
- Clinical education for the novice level clinician
- Working with populations with a hearing loss
- Culturally responsive assessment and intervention
- Planning and implementation of speech pathology practice
- Working in diverse contexts and telehealth in speech pathology practice
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.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | apply clinical reasoning, cultural responsivity, profession specific and interdisciplinary skills to a range of client presentations from diverse service delivery and care settings |
| 2 | recognise personal and professional abilities and limitations when working with diverse communities |
| 3 | demonstrate professional and clinical competence, with a high level of support, working with clients in a work integrated learning environment |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply clinical reasoning, cultural responsivity, profession specific and interdisciplinary skills to a range of client presentations from diverse service delivery and care settings
- recognise personal and professional abilities and limitations when working with diverse communities
- demonstrate professional and clinical competence, with a high level of support, working with clients in a work integrated learning environment
Prescribed Learning Resources
- Hyter, YD & Salas-Provance, M, 2018, Culturally-responsive practices in speech, language and hearing sciences, Plural Publishing..
- Roth, FP & Worthington, CK, 2016, Treatment resource manual for speech-language pathology, 5th edn, Cengage Learning..
- Shipley, KG & McAfee, JG, 2016, Assessment in speech-language pathology: a resource manual, 5th edn, Cengage Learning..
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Workshop 1 hour |
| Laboratory 6 hours (Week 3) |
| Placement 8 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Clinical skills | 40% |
| Placement | SR |
| Case study | 60% |
| Teaching method |
| Workshop 1 hour |
| Laboratory 6 hours (Week 3) |
| Placement 8 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Clinical skills | 40% |
| Placement | SR |
| Case study | 60% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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