SL4001 - Professional Competencies for Speech Pathology 1

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

Enrolment is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology, Speech Pathology IHCAP Program and the Bachelor of Speech Pathology Honours Programs.

This course introduces students to clients with complex communication needs. These clients have additional physical and emotional issues, and environmental and personal factors also impact on their management. Students will demonstrate increasing awareness of professional issues such as ethics of care and organisational structures. The ICF will be used explicitly in the modelling of clinical reasoning skills and, on completion of the course, students will be expected to be proficient in explicitly verbalising their clinical reasoning for new complex cases.

Learning Outcomes

• students will understand the health conditions, impairments, activity limitations, participation restrictions of new complex cases and the impact that environmental and personal factors (the ICF components) are having on the client;
• students will understand and demonstrate sound clinical reasoning regarding management issues for clients;
• students will demonstrate competency in clinical reasoning for complex clients.

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 reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Prerequisites:

HS2401 AND HS3401 AND SL3001 AND SL3002 AND SL3003 AND SL3004 AND SL3005 AND (SL3006 OR SL3106)

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Coordinator:	Ms Samantha Siyambalapitiya
Lecturers:	Dr Wendy Pearce, Ms Louise Brown, Mrs Natalie Skinner, Ms Susan Morrison.
Contact hours:	52 hours workshops/Seminars - Weeks 7-12 semester 1
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (20%); presentations (40%); assignments (30%); presentation handout (10%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Each assessment must be passed to pass the 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.