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

    Professional Issues in Speech Pathology
  • Unit Code

    SPE3110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Deborah Jane HERSH

Description

This unit prepares students for their role as a speech pathologist in a multidisciplinary health and education team, and focuses on the development of therapeutic relationships necessary for speech pathology practice. Students will learn how to make specialised contributions to diverse teams in public and private speech pathology practices in a variety of contexts. Issues relating to the nature of team dynamics and management of conflict resolution within these settings will be covered. Through skills training in counselling, students will learn to understand and practice how to address some of the issues that individuals with communication and swallowing impairment may face.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02 or Y12

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess practices of interprofessional teams to improve speech pathology service provision.
  2. Apply counselling skills to manage conflicts and support individuals with communication and speech impairment.
  3. Critically evaluate personal counselling skills through self-reflection and peer review practices.

Unit Content

  1. Reflective practice.
  2. Self and peer evaluations.
  3. Fundamental skills in humanistic counselling: values, attitudes, ethics, communication skills, interactional skills, coping with anger and grief, recognition of depression and family dynamics.
  4. Different types of teams.
  5. Teams in multidisciplinary health and education settings.
  6. Management issues: systemic case management and appropriate referral to other professionals.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will discover the relevance of unit information through active problem solving and situated learning. Active participation in lectures and tutorials will be critical to student learning success. In order for students to develop clinical competencies in counselling and ability to work effectively in teams, compulsory participation for some workshops and clinical performance tasks is required.

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
AssignmentEvaluation of Interprofessional Teams and Teamwork40%
ReportCounselling Evaluation Report60%

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

    Professional Issues in Speech Pathology
  • Unit Code

    SPE3110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Deborah Jane HERSH

Description

This unit prepares students for their role as a speech pathologist in a multidisciplinary health and education team, and focuses on the development of therapeutic relationships necessary for speech pathology practice. Students will learn how to make specialised contributions to diverse teams in public and private speech pathology practices in a variety of contexts. Issues relating to the nature of team dynamics and management of conflict resolution within these settings will be covered. Through skills training in counselling, students will learn to understand and practice how to address some of the issues that individuals with communication and swallowing impairment may face.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02 or Y12

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Assess practices of interprofessional teams to improve speech pathology service provision.
  2. Apply counselling skills to manage conflicts and support individuals with communication and speech impairment.
  3. Critically evaluate personal counselling skills through self-reflection and peer review practices.

Unit Content

  1. Reflective practice.
  2. Self and peer evaluations.
  3. Fundamental skills in humanistic counselling: values, attitudes, ethics, communication skills, interactional skills, coping with anger and grief, recognition of depression and family dynamics.
  4. Different types of teams.
  5. Teams in multidisciplinary health and education settings.
  6. Management issues: systemic case management and appropriate referral to other professionals.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will discover the relevance of unit information through active problem solving and situated learning. Active participation in lectures and tutorials will be critical to student learning success. In order for students to develop clinical competencies in counselling and ability to work effectively in teams, compulsory participation for some workshops and clinical performance tasks is required.

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
AssignmentEvaluation of Interprofessional Teams and Teamwork40%
ReportCounselling Evaluation Report60%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2012). Counseling skills for speech- language pathologists and audiologists (2nd ed.). Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/681501382

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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