Speech Pathology Practice 3 unit (CXA729)

Launceston

Introduction

Speech Pathology Practice 3 continues to extend your core knowledge and application of concepts and skills developed in previous units and/or concurrently in Optimising Speech and Fluency and Optimising Cognition and Lifelong Disability. You will integrate and apply your understanding and skills in on-campus intensive workshops and within practice education placements in either a paediatric, adult or mixed practice context. Throughout the learning activities and the practice education placement, you will focus on person and family-centredness, biopsychosocial models of practice, clinical reasoning, self-reflection, critical thinking, cultural responsiveness, and evidence-based practice. You will develop a range of communication and swallowing assessment and management skills across the lifespan. During your practice education placement you will receive moderate levels of support from your practice educator/s, in practice contexts where you have moderate levels of familiarity, and where there are moderate levels of complexity.

Summary

Unit name	Speech Pathology Practice 3
Unit code	CXA729
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Health School of Health Sciences
Discipline	Health Sciences
Coordinator	Ms Victoria Cordingley
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Key Dates

Study Period	Start date	Census date	WW date	End date
Semester 2	4/7/2027	26/7/2027	29/8/2027	23/10/2027

* The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (refer to How do I withdraw from a unit? for more information).

Unit census dates currently displaying for 2027 are indicative and subject to change. Finalised census dates for 2027 will be available from the 1st October 2026. Note census date cutoff is 11.59pm AEST (AEDT during October to March).

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Learning Outcomes

• Provide evidence-based, person-centred and responsive speech pathology practice in situations involving a moderate degree of complexity, familiarity and levels of support.
• Plan and administer contextually appropriate assessments and demonstrate clinical reasoning to synthesise, interpret, and report assessment findings independently, in either an adult, paediatric or mixed practice context.
• Plan, implement and evaluate intervention or service responses independently, in either an adult, paediatric or mixed practice context.
• Achieve respectful partnerships and collaboration in situations involving a moderate degree of complexity, familiarity and levels of support.
• Critically reflect and evaluate own performance and learning to inform ongoing professional development and life-long learning in situations involving a moderate degree of complexity, familiarity and levels of support.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

CXA726 Speech Pathology Practice 2

Concurrent Prerequisites

CXA764 Optimising Cognition and Lifelong Disability|CXA765 Optimising Speech and Fluency

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Clinical or Professional Practice (8hrs x 20 times), Independent Learning (2hrs x 10 times), Workshop (10hrs x 2 times)
Assessment	Assessment of Speech Pathology Practice|Case presentation and clinical viva|My Practice Standards Workbook and Reflection
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Please refer to your reading list for required readings.
Recommended	Please refer to your reading list for recommended readings.

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