School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Management of Speech and Language Disorders
  • Unit Code

    SPE3106
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Suzanne Jacqueline MELDRUM

Description

This unit explores the clinical management of developmental speech and language disorders. Students will examine a variety of management options and their evidence base as well as evaluate the factors that may impact on the selection of intervention approaches. Specific intervention characteristics including treatment hierarchies, rationales and relevant outcome measures will be discussed. Management decisions will be planned in the context of clinical case studies. Students will consider the differences in management for individuals from non-standard English backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE2103, SPE2106 and SPE2205 or SPE3100

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence-based interventions to the management of speech and language disorders.
  2. Justify management decisions for individuals with developmental speech and language disorders.
  3. Design management protocols for individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds with developmental speech and language disorders.

Unit Content

  1. Applications of the WHO ICF framework.
  2. Evidence-based interventions for developing speech and language including literacy.
  3. Family-centered and collaborative models.
  4. Educator training programs.
  5. Classroom Interventions.
  6. Long-term implications of speech and language impairments.
  7. Clinical decision making.
  8. Role of other professionals, client and their significant others.
  9. Cultural and linguistic diversity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Students participate in learning activities involving group discussion and case studies to consolidate their learning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case Study ^Management Plan for Language Delay30%
Case Study ^Treatment Plan for Language Disorder30%
Examination ^Speech Sound Disorder Management40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Bauman-Wängler, J. A. (2020). Articulation and phonology in speech sound disorders : a clinical focus (Sixth edition.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1055570365
  • Paul, R., Norbury, C., & Gosse, C. (2018). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence : Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicating (5th ed., pp. xx, 812). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019668527

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Management of Speech and Language Disorders
  • Unit Code

    SPE3106
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Suzanne Jacqueline MELDRUM

Description

This unit explores the clinical management of developmental speech and language disorders. Students will examine a variety of management options and their evidence base as well as evaluate the factors that may impact on the selection of intervention approaches. Specific intervention characteristics including treatment hierarchies, rationales and relevant outcome measures will be discussed. Management decisions will be planned in the context of clinical case studies. Students will consider the differences in management for individuals from non-standard English backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE2103, SPE2106 and SPE2205 or SPE3100

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply evidence-based interventions to the management of speech and language disorders.
  2. Justify management decisions for individuals with developmental speech and language disorders.
  3. Design management protocols for individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds with developmental speech and language disorders.

Unit Content

  1. Applications of the WHO ICF framework.
  2. Evidence-based interventions for developing speech and language including literacy.
  3. Family-centered and collaborative models.
  4. Educator training programs.
  5. Classroom Interventions.
  6. Long-term implications of speech and language impairments.
  7. Clinical decision making.
  8. Role of other professionals, client and their significant others.
  9. Cultural and linguistic diversity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive and are used to introduce the central concepts of the unit and to guide students through the literature. Students participate in learning activities involving group discussion and case studies to consolidate their learning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit plan may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case Study ^Management Plan for Language Delay30%
Case Study ^Treatment Plan for Language Disorder30%
Examination ^Speech Sound Disorder Management40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Bauman-Wängler, J. A. (2020). Articulation and phonology in speech sound disorders : a clinical focus (Sixth edition.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1055570365
  • Paul, R., Norbury, C., & Gosse, C. (2018). Language disorders from infancy through adolescence : Listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicating (5th ed., pp. xx, 812). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1019668527

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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