SL2006 - Speech Development and Impairment

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc

This subject will provide the theoretical foundation and professional skills base necessary for competent practice in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment/management of developmental speech impairments in children and adolescents. Aetiological factors, models and processes explaining speech difference and impairment will be discussed, with comparison to typical speech development. Pre-literacy skills (including phonological awareness) and their relationship to both speech and written literacy (reading and spelling) will be addressed with respect to both typical and disordered development. Implications across linguistic and cultural contexts will be considered. Assessment and intervention methods will be described, demonstrated and evaluated with respect to current theories and evidence-in-practice principles. The effects of speech impairments on activity and participation in educational and community contexts will be explored.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate and apply knowledge of the theories and processes underlying impaired oral structure and function, phonological processing and speech sound development;
• demonstrate and apply knowledge of current assessment, analysis and interpretation processes in order to reach a diagnosis and formulate intervention decisions for speech impairments and pre-literacy skills in the paediatric population;
• demonstrate and apply understanding of how cultural and linguistic diversity impacts on assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning for paediatric speech impairments and pre- literacy skill development;
• demonstrate understanding of client learning processes with respect to changing speech patterns and developing pre-literacy skills within a therapeutic context;
• demonstrate knowledge of a range of intervention approaches; and processes for planning intervention for paediatric speech impairments and pre-literacy skill development; using theoretical and evidence-in-practice principles.

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 select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams.

Prerequisites:

SL1001 AND SL1004 AND HS1003 AND BM1051

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coord/Lect:	Dr Wendy Pearce.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 52 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30% - 40%); quizzes or tests (15% - 20%); assignments (40% - 50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	All assessment components must be passed

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