Available in 2024
Course code

SPTH2001

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

Focuses primarily on management of fluency disorders in preschool-age and school-age children, adolescents and adults. Key issues related to assessment and intervention practices are addressed. Clinical speech measures and specific intervention techniques are studied within the World Health Organisation's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO-ICF) conceptual framework, ethical and evidence-based practice (EBP).


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Identify etiological factors involved in disorders of fluency.

2. Administer comprehensive fluency assessments.

3. Analyse and interpret findings with regard to knowledge of communication development.

4. Identify further information and referral requirements.

5. Develop comprehensive and detailed plans for fluency intervention.

6. Report on findings and make recommendations for future management.


Content

Stuttering:

  • Description and diagnosis
  • Nature of Stuttering (early and advanced)
  • Theoretical issues
  • Assessment and intervention for young children who stutter
  • Assessment and intervention for school-age children who stutter
  • Assessment and intervention of advanced stuttering (adolescents and adults)

Additionally:

Other fluency-related disorders including neurological stuttering and cluttering


Requisite

This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) [12318].


Assumed knowledge

Students are expected to have Assumed Knowledge:

SPTH2101, SPTH2102, SPTH1080, SPTH2002, SPTH2003, SPTH2080, SPTH3101


Assessment items

Quiz: Quiz

Written Assignment: Written Assignment

Online Learning Activity: Online contribution to self-directed learning modules

Tutorial / Laboratory Exercises: Tutorial Exercises


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per fortnight for 6 fortnight(s) starting in week 1
Self-Directed Learning-1
  • Self-Directed 6 hour(s) per term
  • Students undertake two assessable self-directed learning modules across the semester, each requiring around 3 hours of contact time per module.
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per fortnight for 5 fortnight(s) starting in week 2

Course outline