In this unit you will gain experience working in a clinical setting with adults and/or children who are presenting with a wide range of communication and/or swallowing difficulties. Through the completion of sessional placement/s, you will have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate intermediate-level skills across each of the Competency-based Occupational Standards (CBOS, 2011) and the generic professional competencies described in the Competency Assessment in Speech Pathology (COMPASS®) tool. You will collect evidence of these skills and competencies and present these in a portfolio, and you will attend regular tutorials, complete learning plans for your placement/s, and further develop your reflective practice skills. A focus will be placed on the application of your clinical skills within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. Prior to the commencement of the unit, you must complete all pre-clinical requirements, as outlined in the Speech Pathology Clinical Education Handbook, and maintain these requirements throughout the unit.
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 |
SPCH13001 - Speech Pathology Skills and Practice 3 (pre-requisite) SPCH13010 - Dysphagia Across the Lifespan (pre-requisite) SPCH13003 - Neurogenic Communication Disorders (pre-requisite) 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. Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) | 20% |
2. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
3. Reflective Practice Assignment | 80% |
4. Portfolio | 0% |
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%).
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Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50.00% 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:
The range of practice areas covered within this unit will depend largely on the nature of each student's sessional placement/s. However, the practical assessment in a clinical placement will allow each student to have the opportunity to demonstrate an appropriate level (intermediate) of competence with an adult and/or paediatric population across one or more of the following range of practice areas:
Students will be assessed across each of the following four generic professional competencies (GPCs) described by the Competency Assessment in Speech Pathology (COMPASS®) assessment tool:
Students will also be assessed across each of the following seven Competency-Based Occupational standards (CBOS) units:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | |
1 - Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) | • | ||
2 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | |
3 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | ||
4 - Portfolio | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | |
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 | • | • | • |
9 - Social Innovation | • | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) | • | • | • | |||||||
2 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
3 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
4 - Portfolio | • | • | • |