This course develops the professional skills required for students to practise as a speech pathologist with a particular focus on the knowledge and practical skills required to conduct assessment, arrive at differential diagnosis and plan and carry out therapeutic intervention with people with fluency, voice and swallowing disorders. Students will practise taking case histories, conducting assessments, make diagnoses and select intervention strategies for clients with fluency, voice and swallowing disorders. Students will gain practical skills in identifying and counting moments of stuttering and conducting perceptual analysis of voice. There is a Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) component to the course where students develop skills in interacting with and providing support to individuals in a structured setting, such as a nursing home.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 2 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisite: SPCH12002 Communication Development and Disorders in Early Childhood and Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Portfolio | 30% |
2. Group Work | 35% |
3. In-class Test(s) | 35% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 62.50% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 72.73% response rate.
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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1 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
2 - Group Work | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
3 - In-class Test(s) | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
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1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - Critical Thinking | • | |||||||||
4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
5 - Team Work | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | |||||||||
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • |
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2 - Group Work | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
3 - In-class Test(s) | • | • | • |