SPTH2904 Clinical Skills and Practice 2A: Communication Development and Disorders: School Age to Adolescence

2019

4.5

8 x 2-hour lectures per semester
10 x 2-hour workshop-1s per semester
1 x 2-hour field placement weekly

1 Admission into BSPP-Bachelor of Speech Pathology
2 SPTH2903 - Clinical Skills and Practice 1A (Communication Development and Disorders)
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)

SPTH2902 - Professional Studies & Communication Sciences 2A (Communication Development & Disorders: School Age to Adolescence)

Assignments; Oral; Practical Work

This topic teaches students the skills and processes connected with clinical practice. Its focus is on facilitating the integration of theoretical knowledge into the clinical context. There is a practical component to the topic where students develop skills in interacting with and providing support to children in a structured setting.

The aim of this topic is to continue the development of the skills relevant to speech pathology practice. Students will develop an understanding of the issues involved in diagnosis and decision making in clinical practice, clinical management including goal setting and evaluation of intervention strategies.

There will be a strong focus on developing clinical reasoning skills. There will also be opportunities to further develop practical skills in test administration and goal setting. Students will begin to develop an understanding of the range of competencies necessary in developing clinical competence.

On completion of this topic, students will be able to demonstrate basic competence in the following areas:

• Decision Making: interpretation of information from other professionals, and analysis and interpretation of assembled data to arrive at a diagnosis.

• Management Implementation: feedback and decision making about management with the client, planning long-term and short term management goals, developing a management plan on a session by session basis.

• Teaching Skills: task-analysis, scaffolding of activities, teaching strategies, verbal and non-verbal stimuli, giving feedback and reinforcement, planning an effective individual session, flexibility in use of materials, maintenance of desired goals.

• Report Preparation: both written and oral.

• Reflection on the Speech Pathology Australia Competency Based Occupational Standards (CBOS) for graduate entry to the profession that specifically relate to information gathering, client interaction and assessment administration and interpretation.

• In the context of a supervised structured program report on their work with normally developing children with/without English as a second language to facilitate development of learning