| Effective Term: | 2025/02 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Speech Pathology Clinical Practice 3 |
| Unit ID: | HEASP3033 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (EDBSP2026 and HEASP2022 and HEASP2023) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (HEASP6023) |
| ASCED: | 061707 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is the third of six professional experience practice unit in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Hons) course which develops and contextualises the Professional Standards for Speech Pathologists including professional conduct, reflective practice, life-long learning and practice skills.
This unit also provides students with an opportunity to develop and demonstrate competency across the lifespan with a focus on working with adults including assessment, analysis and interpretation, planning, and implementation of person, family and community-centred, evidence-based, culturally safe and responsive services and interventions in professional practice. Specifically, students will explore increasingly complex adult case scenarios, where a higher level of integration and application of knowledge is required. Students will progress towards being more independent in their professional practice knowledge and its application, as well as further developing their identity and competence as a Speech Pathologist. Students will participate in supervised practice education based placement at an intermediate level competency for approximately and not less than 15 days, with flexible support from the university. |
| Grade Scheme: | Ungraded (S, UN) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | Yes - days |
| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | |  | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Critically analyse their development and progression in achievement of Professional Standards of clinical reasoning, communication and university graduate attributes; |
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| K2. | Investigate how to advocate for people’s rights who have communication and swallowing pathologies to achieve optimal outcomes; |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Plan person, family and community-centred, ethical, evidence-based, culturally safe and responsive services interventions in speech pathology practice for adult population utilizing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; |
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| S2. | Implement person, family and community-centred, ethically evidence-based, culturally safe and responsive interventions in speech pathology practice for adult population utilizing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Evaluate person, family and community-centred, ethical, evidence-based, culturally safe and responsive services and interventions in speech pathology practice for adult population utilizing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; |
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| A2. | Evaluate safety considerations and quality of care in partnership and collaboration with individuals, families, communities and multidisciplinary healthcare team. |
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| Unit Content: |
Professional Standards for Speech Pathologist in Australia (2020), Speech Pathology Guidelines for Reporting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Curriculum Development and Inclusions (2018), National Quality and Safeguarding Framework (NQSF, 2018), National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (2017-2019) and National Aged Care Quality Standards (2019) have substantially informed the syllabus/content of this unit
Topics may include:
1. 1. The Speech Pathologist as a professional
• Professional communication skills (extended)
• Clinical reasoning, professionalism and lifelong learning across the adult range of practice areas
2. 2. The Speech Pathologist reflective practice
• Introduction to adult service settings and service models
• Transferability of skills across lifespan focussing on adult professional practice environments
• Application of the ICF to facilitate activity, participation, and quality of life across lifespan range of practice areas
• Introduction to co-morbidity within the adult range of practice areas
• Consideration of client, clinician, and contextual factors in planning and implementing evidence based, culturally appropriate adult client management
3. 3. The Speech Pathologist practice
• Plan, implement and evaluate person-centred care (adults)
• Work in partnership and collaboration with clients, families and communities
• Advocating for the adult client
• Advocating for the profession within adult service settings |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate high-level skills to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups Students will be required to display (in person and/or online) high-level skills in-person and/or online in: • Effective verbal and non-verbal communication via a range of synchronous and asynchronous methods • Active listening for meaning and influencing • High-level empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating extended conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply leadership skills and behaviours Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating, contributing to, and enabling collegial environments • Showing self-awareness and the ability to self-reflect for personal growth • Inspiring and enabling others • Making informed and evidence-based decisions through consultation with others • Displaying initiative and ability to solve problems | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments, using their imagination to create new ideas Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically on complex problems • Synthesising, evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Proposing alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts through deep inquiry • Proposing creative solutions in problem solving | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work proficiently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks Students will be required to display high-level skills in: • Finding, accessing, collating, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and appropriately and securely sharing complex digital information at a high-level • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Using digital tools appropriately to conduct research • Contributing proficiently to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and utilising digital learning opportunities | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to think ethically and sustainably. Students will be required to display skills in: • The responsible conduct of research • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in multiple global economic environmental and societal contexts • Demonstrating commitment to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Generating research solutions which are sustainable,ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable • Extending lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Demonstrate extended actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K2, S1, S2, A1, A2 |
Provides enough appropriate and accurate evidence of claimed practice development knowledge, skills and its application across the range of practice areas against Professional Standards for Speech Pathologists in Australia (2020)
Reflections are a mandatory inclusion |
Professional Practice Portfolio: |
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Hurdle |
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| 2. |
K1, K2, S1, S2, A1, A2 |
Completion of Professional Practice including;
Completion of mandatory tasks
a Pass grade on COMPASS, showing overall progression towards the intermediate to advanced level, and individual COMPASS ratings consistent with the requirements of each Professional Standard rating |
Professional Practice COMPASS Assessment |
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Hurdle |
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| 3. |
K1, K2, S1, S2, A1, A2 |
Attendance at Practical Intensives |
100% attendance at practical intensives |
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory HURDLE |
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