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Unit of Study SPCH2005 - Child Language and Literacy: Theory and Practice (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains professional experience learning/ laboratory activities that require students to meet mandatory compliance requirements prior to attending. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the Professional Experience Learning and/or stipulated Laboratory Activity which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at https://www.scu.edu.au/health/health-placements/. Please note Full Covid-19 vaccination is a mandatory requirement associated with the placement element of this unit of study. This requirement has been stipulated by the placement providers. It is strongly recommended that only students who meet this requirement enrol in this unit.

Unit description

Students engage with a combination of learning experiences (online lectures, face-to-face tutorials and clinical practice experience) developing and applying knowledge and skills to assess, analyse and interpret child speech, language and literacy disorders. With guidance, students appraise children's communication, formulate and implement intervention plans, measure and document outcomes, involve caregivers and engage in reflective practice.

Unit content

  • Assessment and treatment approaches for children with language and literacy delays/disorders.
  • Collecting, analysing and interpreting data from children’s verbal and written language samples and responses to standardised tests
  • Phonological awareness, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, narration and literacy.
  • Child language and literacy and its application to clinical contexts.
  • Foundational clinical skills including assessment and intervention planning, goal writing, and reporting on clinical outcomes

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Session2
Session2
Gold Coast
Session2
Session2

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:

apply both standardised and non-standardised assessment procedures with clients and interpret clinical data using the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) framework and relevant Competency-Based Occupational Standards (CBOS) to support clinical decisions.

identify intervention targets and formulate intervention plans and implement intervention in line with relevant elements and Units of the Competency-Based Occupational Standards (CBOS) and evidence-based practice information

apply appropriate interpersonal communication skills and ethical behaviour with people in the clinical context at all times

produce effective intervention sessions that demonstrate use of evidence-based practice and International Classification of Functioning that lead to appropriate recommendations and referrals through professional reporting as summarized in the Competency-Based Occupational Standards (CBOS).

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Paul, R, Norbury, C.F, & Goose, C., 2018, Language disorders from infancy through adolescence. Listening, speaking, reading, writing and communicating, 5th edn, Elsevier. ISBN: 9780323442343.
  • Roth, FP & Worthington, CK, 2016, Treatment resource manual for speech-language pathology, 5th edn, Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781285851150.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.