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

    Clinical Speech Pathology Practicum: Assessment of a Single Case
  • Unit Code

    SPE4100
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Teresa Beth PETRICH

Description

This unit links theory and practice in speech pathology to develop specialist evaluation skills in order to plan clinical services for a wide range of clients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The student will identify an individual with communication or swallowing difficulties and will develop an evidence based assessment protocol. The process will then be written in a format suitable for publication in a topic-relevant speech pathology journal.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version K71, Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collect case information from clients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in accordance with the WHO ICF.
  2. Design appropriate data analyses.
  3. Plan an appropriate assessment strategy founded on evidence-based practice.
  4. Produce a report containing an evidence based protocol for the assessment of the single case in accordance with publication guidelines specified by a suitable journal.

Unit Content

  1. Effective assessment skills within a WHO ICF framework.
  2. Evidence-based practice relating to diagnosis, assessment tools and methodologies in speech and language pathology.
  3. Publication guidelines and scientific writing skills for reporting single case studies.
  4. Research methods and statistics in relation to assessment processes.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Tutorials and laboratories.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case Study ^Case assessment40%
Report ^Case publication to journal standard60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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

    Clinical Speech Pathology Practicum: Assessment of a Single Case
  • Unit Code

    SPE4100
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Teresa Beth PETRICH

Description

This unit links theory and practice in speech pathology to develop specialist evaluation skills in order to plan clinical services for a wide range of clients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The student will identify an individual with communication or swallowing difficulties and will develop an evidence based assessment protocol. The process will then be written in a format suitable for publication in a topic-relevant speech pathology journal.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPE3107

Co-Requisite Rule

Must be enrolled in course version K71, Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collect case information from clients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in accordance with the WHO ICF.
  2. Design appropriate data analyses.
  3. Plan an appropriate assessment strategy founded on evidence-based practice.
  4. Produce a report containing an evidence based protocol for the assessment of the single case in accordance with publication guidelines specified by a suitable journal.

Unit Content

  1. Effective assessment skills within a WHO ICF framework.
  2. Evidence-based practice relating to diagnosis, assessment tools and methodologies in speech and language pathology.
  3. Publication guidelines and scientific writing skills for reporting single case studies.
  4. Research methods and statistics in relation to assessment processes.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Tutorials and laboratories.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case Study ^Case assessment40%
Report ^Case publication to journal standard60%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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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