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Unit of Study SPCH1003 - Foundations of Speech Pathology Practice (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Develops a foundational knowledge of the principles of assessment and intervention planning in speech pathology.  Students are provided with an opportunity to acquire, practise and demonstrate foundational speech pathology skills that underpin clinical practice.  Practise in tutorial sessions and simulated rehearsal prepares students to carry out foundational assessment and intervention skills ensuring a focus on evidence-based practice and optimisation of client outcomes.

Unit content

  1. Person and family centred practice, and culturally responsive care in speech pathology 
  2. Assessment of communication and swallowing for an individual and/or community
  3. Analysis and  interpretation and diagnosis of communication and swallowing at individual and service levels
  4. Ways of reporting information about communication and swallowing to meet the needs of the individual and/or community
  5. Intervention planning for communication and swallowing disorders to meet the needs of the individual and/or community
  6. The process of evaluating response to communication and swallowing management at individual and service levels

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term3
Term3
Gold Coast
Term3
Term3

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:

describe the process of assessment, analysis and diagnosis of communication and swallowing to meet the needs of the individual and/or community

explain the process of reporting and planning at an individual and/or service response level regarding communication and swallowing

reflect on the process of intervention and evaluation for communication and swallowing to meet the needs of the individual and/or community

explain how cultural responsiveness and person and family-centred factors impacts speech pathology practice

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Treatment resource manual for speech-language pathology (Roth, FP & Worthington, CK, 2021, Cengage Learning)

  • The first two textbooks are available online via MyReadings with unlimited access through SCU Library Services.

    The second two textbooks will be available through SCU Library Services for borrowing.

     

  • Assessment in speech-language pathology: a resource manual (Shipley, KG & McAfee, JG, 2021, Cengage Learning)

  • Communication Sciences and Disorders Across the Lifespan (Patricia A. Prelock & Ashley Brien, 2024, Plural Publishing)

  • Speech and language therapy: a primer (Cummings, L, 2018, Cambridge University Press)

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.