Module Code - Title:
SL4006
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ADVANCED CLINICAL DECISION MAKING FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY PRACTICE
Year Last Offered:
N/A
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The aim of this module is to consolidate and extend the student's theoretical and practice knowledge through engagement with complex clinical cases and specialist models of service delivery across the life span. The module provides opportunities for the student to engage with cases that include several areas of need and competing priorities for intervention. The module content challenges the student to explore their role in relation to innovative practice, challenging policy contexts and unique populations.
Syllabus:
Student's theoretical and practice knowledge of speech and language therapy will be developed in this module through engagement with complex clinical cases and specialist models of service delivery across the life span. Content includes: Case-based learning; Competing priorities for intervention; Innovative practice; Emerging areas of practice; Challenging policy contexts, and; unique populations.
Content includes assessment and management of specialist caseloads including persons with cleft lip and palate, cochlear implants and other low incidence presentations, as well as communication needs in the context of co-occurring difficulties in childhood and adolescent mental health. Content also includes knowledge and skills in relation to the assessment and management of profiles of need in the context of progressive conditions and ethically challenging practice scenarios (graduate attribute: curious and responsible).
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Integrate different types of knowledge to develop assessment and management plans in relation to complex clinical cases across the lifespan.
Appraise the quality of current models of speech and language therapy service delivery in relation to different populations of need.
Propose innovative solutions to complex scenarios in healthcare, community and educational settings using an evidence-based approach
Describe the impact of non-clinical determinants of health including social, political, economic, environmental, gender disparities and therapeutic alliance on speech and language therapy outcomes for individuals with a range of complex profiles of need.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Value the importance of a person-centred approach in relation to the role of the speech and language therapist.
Respect and display a professional commitment to safe, legal and ethical practice.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The student has the opportunity to examine cases that include a combination of speech, language and communication and feeding, eating, drinking and swallowing needs across the lifespan (graduate attribute: curious). The role of the speech and language therapist is explored in relation to unique populations and settings such as palliative care (graduate attribute: agile). Consistent with previous case-based learning, the student is required to appraise the evidence from a range of sources (research, policy, best practice guidelines) to justify clinical decision-making (graduate attributes: curious, articulate and courageous).
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Howard, S & Lohmander, A (2011)
Cleft Palate Speech: Assessment and Intervention
, Chichester: Wiley
Clegg, J., Ginsborg, J, eds. (2006)
Language and Social Disadvantage.
, London: Wiley
Ellis, S & McCartney, E (2011)
Applied Linguistics and Primary School Teaching
, CUP
Gilberg, C (Ed) (2014)
ADHD and Its Many Associated Problems
, OUP
Just, M.A & Pelphrey, K (eds) (2013)
Development and Brain Systems in Autism
, Psychology Press
Rutter, M, Bishop, DVM, Pine, D.S et al Eds (2008)
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Fifth Edition
, Blackwell Publishing
Gross, J (2013)
Time to Talk. Implementing outstanding practice in speech, language and communication
, Oxon, UK: Routledge
Law, J, Reilly, S, & McKean C., (2022)
Language Development Individual Differences in a Social Context
, Cambridge University Press
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSSLTHUFA - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Aoife.Gallagher@ul.ie