SL3103 - Speech Pathology Practice 2 (Honours)

Credit points:	03
Year:	2014
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Sch Public Health,Trop Medicine&Rehabilitation Sc (pre 2015)

Enrolment is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology with Honours.

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 Project component: Students will plan and design a suitable honours project in collaboration with a supervisor. They will complete a literature search and develop a project proposal, presented orally, then in writing. They will also review steps required for ethics compliance and submit an ethics application (if required).

Learning Outcomes

• 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 - 2011 in terms of independence, caseload complexity, efficiency and critical/creative thinking;
• Students will experience (directly or indirectly) clinical management of a range of communication or swallowing disorders;
• Students will 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;
• Students will demonstrate the ability to design and plan research in a systematic and scientific manner, to apply research methods appropriate to their research field of study, and to ensure that research complies with ethical standards.

Prerequisites:

HS2402 AND HS2403 AND SL2002 AND SL2003 AND (SL2004 OR SL2012) AND RH2002

Availabilities
Townsville, Placement/work experience, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2014
Coordinator:	Ms Louise Brown, Dr William Steed
Lecturers:	Dr Wendy Pearce, Ms Louise Brown, Dr William Steed, jc251854, Dr Renee Speyer.
Contact hours:	13 hours - Honours supervision 65 hours clinical placement
Assessment:	thesis (%); clinical competencies - assessment of skills in clinical practice and oral viva using the speech pathology australia clinical evaluation tool (%); portfolio of clinical experience - a collection of material demonstrating developing competency within the cbos 2001 framework (%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	This subject will be marked as a non-graded pass/fail. Students must successfully pass all components to pass this subject. Weighting of marks for the honours project is detailed further in the Honours Handbook.

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.