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Unit of Study SPT40002 - Assessment and Intervention of Communication and Swallowing for Children: External Clinic (2017)

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Unit description

Assists students to integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes and reach entry level competency in providing assessment, planning intervention, managing speech pathology services and documenting outcomes for children with speech, language, voice, fluency or swallowing disorders. Students consolidate required knowledge, skills and attitudes during a supervised external clinic placement.

Unit content

Students participate in 24 days of supervised external clinic placements (e.g. in hospital, education and community settings) where students are expected to demonstrate entry level competency in assessing and/or providing intervention for child clients with communication and/or swallowing disorders, according to Competency- based Occupational Standards (CBOS Revised 2011 - Speech Pathology Australia). There is ongoing feedback on students' clinical performance during the placement.

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 1 - Assessment, that is, conduct an appropriate assessment protocol for a child client with a communication and/or swallowing disorder
2 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 2 Analysis and interpretation, that is analyse and interpret client responses and write a report on findings and implications for intervention in the context of the ICF model
3 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 3 - Planning evidence-based speech pathology practices
4 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 4 - Implementation of Speech Pathology practices
5 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 5 - Planning, providing and managing speech pathology services
6 demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 7 - Lifelong learning and reflective practice

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 1 - Assessment, that is, conduct an appropriate assessment protocol for a child client with a communication and/or swallowing disorder
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  2. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 2 Analysis and interpretation, that is analyse and interpret client responses and write a report on findings and implications for intervention in the context of the ICF model
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  3. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 3 - Planning evidence-based speech pathology practices
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  4. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 4 - Implementation of Speech Pathology practices
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  5. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 5 - Planning, providing and managing speech pathology services
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  6. demonstrate entry level competency in CBOS Unit 7 - Lifelong learning and reflective practice
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:

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