SPTH2908 Clinical Skills and Practice 2B: Voice and Swallowing Disorders

2019

4.5

5 x 2-hour lectures per semester
1 x 1-hour lecture-2 per semester
1 x 3-hour lecture-1 per semester
1 x 2-hour workshop per semester
6 x 3-hour workshop-1s per semester
1 x 5-hour on-line exercises per semester

1 Admission into BSPP-Bachelor of Speech Pathology
2 SPTH1103 - Anatomy and Physiology of Speech
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)

SPTH2906 - Professional Studies & Communication Sciences 2B (Voice and Swallowing Disorders)

Assignments; Examinations

This topic develops the professional skills required for students to practice as a speech pathologist with a particular focus on the knowledge and practical skills required to conduct assessment, arrive at differential diagnosis, and plan and carry out therapeutic intervention with people with voice and swallowing disorders. Through in-class tutorials and workshops students will have opportunities to practice taking case histories, making diagnoses and selecting intervention strategies for clients with voice and swallowing disorders. Through the use of instructional multimedia, students will gain practical skills in conducting perceptual analysis of voice and in analysing instrumental assessments of swallowing.. Additionally, students will undertake a structured fieldwork program where they will gain experience working with normally developing children to facilitate learning development.

The aim of this topic is to:

• Develop students ability to determine the nature and extent of voice disorders through clinical and instrumentation-based diagnosis and analysis

• Develop students ability to determine the nature and extent of swallowing disorders through clinical and instrumentation-based diagnosis and analysis

• Determine and conduct appropriate intervention for voice disorders

• Determine appropriate intervention for swallowing disorders

On completion of the topic students will be able to:

• Describe and manipulate one’s own voice

• Apply a case-history proforma relevant to the voice and/or swallowing

• Analyse and report on the vocal mechanism using tools for

  • Perceptual

  • Acoustic and

  • Physiologic measurement

• Evaluate an individual's voice-related quality of life (QOL) using appropriate measures

• Select and implement a range of voice therapy intervention techniques appropriately.

• Describe, analyse and report findings from dysphagia assessment

• Determine and prioritize treatment goals

• Select appropriate intervention strategies to meet prioritized goals

• Promote healthy voice use and prevention of voice problems in specific groups (eg. in children, in noisy work places and in professional voice users)