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CSCD5061: Speech 1: Phonological Impairment
2025 unit information
Speech 1: Phonological Impairment aims to provide students with the theoretical background to speech development and impairment in children. The nature of speech impairments in children; techniques for assessment, analysis and intervention or service response are considered using a case based approach to learning.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Communication Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Phonemic transcription of Australian English; and, normal head and neck anatomy |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate knowledge of speech sound disorders in children including acquisition, aetiology, prognosis, assessment, analysis, diagnosis, intervention, and discharge
- LO2. Demonstrate skills in speech assessment including: transcribe typical and disordered speech; conduct and interpret an oral musculature assessment; administer and interpret standardised single-word speech sampling tests; collect connected speech samples; formulate relevant case history interviews and understand answers provided.
- LO3. Analyse speech samples manually and with appropriate technology to determine speech inventory and phonological processes
- LO4. Differentially diagnose paediatric speech sound disorders and clearly and concisely explain your reasoning to a range of audiences
- LO5. Exercise critical judgement to plan and evaluate treatment including data collection for phonological, motor speech and articulation impairments, ensuring child and carer participation in planning and evaluating treatment.
- LO6. Use rigorous independent thinking when evaluating published literature on speech acquisition, disorder aetiology, assessment, analysis, diagnosis and intervention and implement evidence-based practice in relation to paediatric speech disorders, balancing the evidence from the literature, clinician skills and data, and clients (E3BP).
- LO7. In relation to speech sound disorders, accommodate personal, cultural, and linguistic difference in clinical decision making, communication and support of people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances
- LO8. When working with others (colleagues or consumers), acknowledge personal responsibility for value judgements and ethical behaviour and account for clinical decisions in the management of speech impairments
- LO9. Effectively and professionally communicate with a range of audiences, both orally and in writing, about the management of a child or children with speech sound disorders
- LO10. Demonstrate ethical understanding and professional integrity in all aspects of managing speech sound disorders including incorporating the ICF-CY, informed consent and child assent, privacy, and child protection and other relevant frameworks
- LO11. Demonstrate effective problem solving in the management of speech impairments such as differential diagnosis, failure to progress in therapy or complex goal setting (e.g., identify a range of solutions to a variety of clinical scenarios).
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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