This unit provides you with the theoretical knowledge of communication development and disorders across the broad age range (approximately 5 to 18 years) that constitutes 'school age'. You will conduct and interpret assessments and plan intervention strategies for the management of delays and disorders across all range of practice areas in this population. You will be given the opportunity to implement structured therapy programs in a specific range of practice. The principles of evidence based practice, ethical standards and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework are embedded throughout the unit. A range of service delivery models such as rural and remote service provision, cross-cultural service provision, telehealth models, the response to intervention (RTI) framework and interprofessional practice principles will be discussed as they relate to the management of communication and swallowing disorders in the school aged population.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 3 |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-Requisites:
Co-Requisites:
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. Presentation and Written Assessment | 30% |
2. Practical and Written Assessment | 30% |
3. On-campus Activity | 0% |
4. Examination | 40% |
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.
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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 66.67% 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:
Speech Pathology Range of Practice covered:
Paediatric - Speech and Language are the primary areas whilst Multimodal Communication, Voice, Fluency and Swallowing are secondary areas.
Competency-based Occupational Standards for Speech Pathology (CBOS 2011):
Unit 1 Assessment - Elements 1.1. and 1.2, to Intermediate standard
Unit 2 Analysis and interpretation - Elements 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 to Intermediate standard
Unit 3 Planning evidence based speech pathology practices - Elements 3.1, 3.2, and 3.6 to Intermediate standard
Unit 4 Implementation of speech pathology practice - Elements 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 to Novice standard (direct evidence)
Unit 5 Planning, providing and managing speech pathology services – Elements 5.4, 5.5, and 5.8 to Intermediate standard
Unit 7 Lifelong learning and reflective practice – Elements 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 to Intermediate standard
Competency Assessment in Speech Pathology (COMPASS®) Generic Professional Competencies:
Unit 1 Reasoning - Elements1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 to Intermediate standard
Unit 2 Communication - Elements 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 to Intermediate standard
Unit 3 Learning - Elements 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 to Intermediate standard
Unit 4 Professionalism - Elements 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 and 4.5 to Intermediate standard
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Presentation and Written Assessment | • | • | • | |
2 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
3 - On-campus Activity | • | • | • | |
4 - Examination | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
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 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - On-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
4 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • | • |