Integrated Speech Pathology Practice unit (CXA744)

Introduction

This capstone unit consolidates your clinical reasoning and requires you to integrate and apply the knowledge, skills, and professional attributes developed throughout the course. In this unit, you prepare to enter the speech pathology profession and respond to individual, family, and community level needs in complex and changing practice contexts. Two speech pathology practice areas, disability and fluency, are a specific focus of the unit. The unit adopts a case-based and lifespan focus to cases with co-existing and multi-faceted communication and/or swallowing needs. You will integrate the advocacy, leadership, research, and cultural responsiveness skills you have previously developed in the course, with competent evidence-based and client-centred clinical reasoning. You will apply different approaches to ethical reasoning (e.g. ethics of care, narrative approach, casuistry) to support quality and safety management. Through the application of these professional frameworks and skills to complex case management, you will demonstrate integrated speech pathology professional competencies appropriate for entry to the profession.

Summary

Unit name	Integrated Speech Pathology Practice
Unit code	CXA744
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Health School of Health Sciences
Discipline	Health Sciences
Coordinator	Doctor Samuel Calder
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Postgraduate

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Integrate holistic case data and professional context with theory, evidence, and practice frameworks to respond to complex and multi-faceted communication and swallowing needs of individuals and/or communities.
• Justify holistic, evidence-based, and culturally responsive management or service response plans to optimise communication and/or swallowing where there is complexity and co-existing needs.
• Apply ethical decision-making frameworks to professional practice scenarios, and justify responses to ethical situations.
• Demonstrate advocacy, leadership, research skills, and cultural responsiveness to evaluate quality and safety of service responses and professional development needs.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

CXA735 Optimising Communication and Swallowing 2 AND CXA729 Speech Pathology Practice 3

Concurrent Prerequisites

CXA745 Speech Pathology Practice 4 AND CXA713 Transitioning to Community-Based Allied Health Practice

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Lecture Online (2hrs x 9 times), Workshop (17hrs x 2 times), Independent learning (10hrs x 9 times)
Assessment	Integrated practice management: Disability (30%)|Integrated practice management: Fluency (30%)|Integrated practice management: Scope of practice (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Please refer to your reading list for required readings. You will be directed to the recommended readings as you work through each topic in Mylo.
Recommended	Please refer to your reading list for recommended readings. You will be directed to the recommended readings as you work through each topic in Mylo.

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