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Unit of Study SPT72002 - Communication Development Across the Lifespan (2019)

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Unit description

Introduces students to foundational knowledge of physical, cognitive, and communication development in typically-developing Australian-English speaking children. The unit will further introduce students to the notion of communication development as part of healthy aging. The unit explores principles and practices for conducting and recording observations of people and environments and also the elicitation and transcription of speech/language samples as relevant for both children and adult interactions.

Unit content

This unit covers content in three main areas:

  1. Communication development from childhood through to healthy aging
  2. Observation in speech pathology
  3. Speech/language sampling and analysis in speech pathology.

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Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 1 Session 1

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 explain aspects of communication and social development in typical childhood development to a non-specialist audience
2 record, analyse and report observations of communicative behaviours drawing on appropriate principles and frameworks
3 identify and evaluate a range of methods to elicit speech and/or language samples for the purpose of speech pathology analysis
4 prepare transcripts of speech and language for the purpose of speech pathology analysis.

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

  1. explain aspects of communication and social development in typical childhood development to a non-specialist audience
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. record, analyse and report observations of communicative behaviours drawing on appropriate principles and frameworks
    • GA4:
  3. identify and evaluate a range of methods to elicit speech and/or language samples for the purpose of speech pathology analysis
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. prepare transcripts of speech and language for the purpose of speech pathology analysis.
    • GA4:

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