Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | Term1 | Term1 |
| Gold Coast | Term1 | Term1 |
Unit description
Students learn about communication development and changes across the lifespan in relation to range of practice areas: speech, language, voice, fluency and swallowing. In addition to lectures and tutorials students conduct an experiential activity to observe these phenomena in children and adults via case studies. Knowledge of typical communication enables students to contrast atypical communication in subsequent units to inform assessment and diagnosis in speech pathology practice.
Unit content
This unit covers content in three areas:
- Communication development from infancy and childhood through to healthy adulthood and ageing and to the end of life.
- Observation, interviewing, documentation and presentation skills in speech pathology.
- Principles and protocols for speech and language sampling and basic analysis of components of communication.
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 | understand key stages of communication and swallowing development and understand the relationship between communication development and other developmental domains across the lifespan |
| 2 | record, analyse and report observations of typical communication behaviours in child and adult populations |
| 3 | synthesise and interpret observational and/or case history information for child and adult populations |
| 4 | conduct a case history interview to collect information about communication, swallowing and other medical and social history |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- understand key stages of communication and swallowing development and understand the relationship between communication development and other developmental domains across the lifespan
- record, analyse and report observations of typical communication behaviours in child and adult populations
- synthesise and interpret observational and/or case history information for child and adult populations
- conduct a case history interview to collect information about communication, swallowing and other medical and social history
Prescribed Learning Resources
- McLeod, S & McCormack, J, 2015, An Introduction to Speech, Language and Literacy, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia. ISBN: 95527926.
- Note that an eBook version is also available: Peterson, C, 2013, Looking forward through the lifespan: Developmental psychology, 6th edn, Pearson Australia. ISBN: 9781442556508.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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International
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