Staff profile

Ingrid Scholten

Dip(SpTh)CCHS, GradDipHlthEdSACAE, MSWisconsin, EdD, Flinders University

Qualifications:

Ingrid is a senior lecturer and has been employed within the department since 1987. Her clinical background as a speech pathologist has been predominantly in the area of communication and swallowing disorders of acquired neurogenic aetiology, including stroke and head injury. This interest is echoed in her teaching responsibilities. Although not currently practising clinically, Ingrid has been involved in clinical education in these areas, in addition to supervision with a more general caseload.

Ingrid’s teaching, associated scholarship and creative endeavours reflect an interest and enthusiasm for promoting student learning. Her doctoral research included the development and calibration of an assessment tool that marries the identification of complex learning outcomes with reliable measurement. This test has been used in a national developmental study that investigated the contributions of a variety of factors to speech pathology students’ learning of the swallowing process over time. Another project employed qualitative research methods to study the teaching concepts held by teachers in the area of dysphagia. These findings have been disseminated at national and international conferences and via journal publication. Ingrid completed the Foundation tutor training course in Problem Based Learning in 1998 and is currently facilitating learning within one of the tutorial groups in the Master of Audiology program.

Together with departmental colleagues Ingrid has received competitive national funding to produce award-winning teaching-and-learning materials, CD-ROMS that deliver interactive multimedia programs. Each of the projects targets foundation knowledge and skills basic to speech pathology education and practice in inspirational ways. The Dynamic Swallow offers a way of investigating the swallowing mechanism in a safe environment and assists students to develop internal visual models of the normal swallowing process, fundamental to the establishment of diagnostic and treatment skills required in the largest subspecialty area of speech pathology practice. Open Wide allows students to simulate clinical examinations of the face and mouth, a fundamental skill in all areas of speech pathology practice, yet one that is confronting to inexperienced students. These significant new educational resources are used throughout Australia and are also available internationally. Their development has involved wide consultation with colleagues from other universities to ensure that the programs meet the needs of students from a variety of settings and educational philosophies.

The interest in student learning is also reflected in the administrative roles undertaken by Ingrid in the department and University more broadly. She is a member of the Faculty of Health Science’s Teaching and Learning Committee, the Faculty representative on the University’s Course Reference Group and a member of the Dietetics and Nutrition Programmes Course Committee.

 

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Updated: August 21, 2006