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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Unit aim
Increases students' knowledge and pre-clinical skills for appraising and providing intervention for adults and children with motor speech or swallowing disorders (as a result of conditions such as stroke, multiple sclerosis or cerebral palsy). Students learn about mechanisms underlying dysphagia, dysarthria and dyspraxia of speech, associated symptoms and related assessment and intervention options.
Unit content
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | Explain neuroanatomical and neurophysiological perspectives of speech and swallowing and associated problems. | |||||||
2 | Identify underlying conditions and mechanisms linked with dysarthria, dyspraxia, childhood apraxia of speech and dysphagia and the potential impact of these disorders. | |||||||
3 | Differentiate characteristics of speech in dysarthria and dyspraxia. | |||||||
4 | Explain the purpose and process of clinical examination of motor speech disorders and swallowing disorders. | |||||||
5 | Explain principles and practices involved in motor learning and the relevance to intervention for motor speech disorders. | |||||||
6 | Formulate a treatment plan and appropriate outcome measures based on evidence, for an adult and a child with a motor speech disorder and an adult with dysphagia. | |||||||
7 | Establish goals incorporating multimodal intervention and demonstrate ways of implementing such intervention for adults and children with speech and swallowing disorders. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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Explain neuroanatomical and neurophysiological perspectives of speech and swallowing and associated problems.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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Identify underlying conditions and mechanisms linked with dysarthria, dyspraxia, childhood apraxia of speech and dysphagia and the potential impact of these disorders.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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Differentiate characteristics of speech in dysarthria and dyspraxia.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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Explain the purpose and process of clinical examination of motor speech disorders and swallowing disorders.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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Explain principles and practices involved in motor learning and the relevance to intervention for motor speech disorders.
- GA1:
- GA4:
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Formulate a treatment plan and appropriate outcome measures based on evidence, for an adult and a child with a motor speech disorder and an adult with dysphagia.
- GA1:
- GA2:
- GA4:
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Establish goals incorporating multimodal intervention and demonstrate ways of implementing such intervention for adults and children with speech and swallowing disorders.
- GA1:
- GA4: