SL3106 - Speech Pathology Practice 3 (Honours)

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Discipline of Speech Pathology

Enrolment in this subject is restricted to all students enrolled n the Bachelor of Speech Pathology Honours degree (and not Speech Pathology pass degree).

Available to level 3 Bachelor of Speech Pathology students enrolled in the honours course. Clinical component: Students will develop clinical skills and apply knowledge in clinical settings. Students will participate in clinical education placements in which they will work with supervision and guidance of clinical educators. Students will have the opportunity to observe and work directly with clients with a range of impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions related to speech, language, voice, fluency and swallowing. Students will be involved with assessment, planning and delivery of services for individual cases, as well as providing community education. A range of settings, both in the internal clinic and external facilities will be used to ensure that students develop clinical competence with a variety of clients and in differing clinical contexts. Honours component: Students will design and prepare a research project in an area of speech pathology under the supervision of academic staff.

Learning Outcomes

• in the clinical component - students will demonstrate progress from beginning levels of clinical competence toward intermediate levels of competence across all units of the Competency Based Occupational Standards for Speech Pathologists - 2001 in terms of independence, caseload complexity, efficiency and critical/creative thinking;
• - students will develop intermediate level competency in clinical management of a range of speech, language, voice, fluency or swallowing disorders and communicate their observations and clinical findings verbally and in writing in a professional and ethical manner;
• - students will demonstrate professional and ethical behaviour appropriate to the policies and procedures of the clinical placement setting and the profession of speech pathology;
• in the honours component - students will identify an area of research interest and demonstrate the ability to formulate a research question related to speech pathology, commence a review of the literature related to the research question and prepare and submit an ethics application.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion.

Prerequisites:	SL3001 and SL3002 and SL3003 and HS3401
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	SL3006

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coord/Lect:	Dr Tom Mylne, Ms Louise Brown.
Contact hours:	13 hours - Thesis - supervisory meetings (additional self study required) 72 hours clinical placement
Assessment:	thesis (%); clinical competencies - assessment of skills in clinical practice using compass (assessment tool) (%); portfolio of clinical experience - a collection of material demonstrating developing competency within the cbos 2001 framework (%); clinical viva - a standard evaluation of student clinical problem solving and skill development (%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	This subject will be marked as a non-graded pass/fail. Students must successfully pass all components to pass this subject.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.