SPTH2907 Clinical Skills and Practice 1B: Motor Speech Disorders

2016

4.5

13 x 2-hour lectures per semester
7 x 2-hour workshops per semester
1 x 1-hour practical-2 once-only
1 x 2-hour practical-1 once-only
1 x 2-hour on-line tutorial once-only

1 Admission into BSPP-Bachelor of Speech Pathology
2 1 of SPTH1104, SPTH1401
Must Satisfy: (1 and 2)

SPTH2905 - Professional Studies & Communication Sciences 1B (Motor Speech Disorders)

Assignments; Examinations (35%); Practical Work; Project

This topic develops the professional skills required to practice as a speech pathologist with a particular focus on providing students with the knowledge and practical skills required to conduct assessment, differential diagnosis, and management of people with motor speech disorders, including fluency disorders, dysarthria and apraxia of speech. During in-class tutorials, students will gain practical skills in conducting perceptual analysis of speech and assessing overt stuttering.

Students will have opportunities to practice making diagnoses and selecting intervention strategies, including appropriate Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) techniques where indicated. 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 begin to develop students skills relevant to speech pathology practice. Students must not only have an understanding about the conditions that cause motor speech disorders but also be able to determine the nature and extent of the speech disorder through perceptual and instrumentation-based diagnosis and analysis and determine appropriate intervention.

On completion of the topic students will be able to:

• Differentiate between motor speech disorders on the basis of perceptual characteristics

• Determine severity of motor speech disorders on the basis of perceptual characteristics

• Describe the impact of speech disorders on quality of life for the person and /or their carers using the WHO/ICF model (OASES/ACES in fluency)

• Explain the processes involved in the evaluation of speech /fluency

• Describe, measure, analyse and report findings from assessment

• Determine the client’s preferred treatment goals at different stages of development or disease progression (relevant to specific PBL cases)

• Select appropriate approaches and treatment tasks (including AAC where appropriate) to meet prioritized goals

• Explain how to demonstrate change in the individual's speech pattern and where relevant, non-speech components, in response to treatment or disease progression (outcome measures; treatment efficacy)

• Reflect upon own development of the CBOS-II generic skills of professionalism, communication, reasoning and lifelong learning.