HS833-7-PS-CO:
Speech and Language Therapy - Paediatrics 3
2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring & Summer
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 03 February 2025
Friday 27 June 2025
15
04 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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MSC B62024 Speech and Language Therapy (Pre-Registration)
This module builds upon and extends the knowledge gained from modules HS830, HS831 & HS832 to develop the students experience and understanding of aspects of more complex speech and language pathology in children. An emphasis is placed on the application of this knowledge within clinical practice while considering the impact on the client and their family.
The module introduces additional skills and concepts fundamental to the practice of speech and language therapy at a more advanced level. These include development of a differential diagnosis and prognosis in more complex cases. Principles of intervention planning and therapeutic tools and techniques are further developed.
The aims of this module are:
- To develop students' understanding of more complex paediatric communication needs, their impact, and how they are managed within SLT with reference to the client's safety, choice, and quality of life.
- To apply the evidence base underpinning all aspects of speech and language therapy practice for more complex SLCN.
- To apply information regarding inter-professional / inter-agency working within an SLT context.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- .Critically consider the aetiology and presenting characteristics of children with complex conditions.
- Critically appraise the impact of complex conditions on the client and significant others and its importance to professional practice.
- Critically evaluate the role of the SLT, client, family, and inter-professional interagency team in the management of complex paediatric conditions considering client safety, choice and quality of life and in light of evidence-based practice, current legislation and guidelines.
A focus is placed on the development of evidence-based clinical reasoning skills in the decision-making process for clients including the development of a differential diagnosis and prognosis. It is in this module that the student will first consider issues of ‘appropriateness’ for treatment and the nature and importance of ‘prognostic indicators’. Principles of intervention planning and therapeutic tools and techniques are further developed.
The role of the SLT and wider inter-professional team in reducing the impact of these conditions and difficulties is considered with reference to the client, their family and wider social network.
The emphasis is on the application of underlying knowledge to the understanding of aspects of complex paediatric communication difficulties and the work of the speech and language therapist within current legislative, national and professional guidelines.
Application of theory to practice, clinical skills and graduate employability skills are embedded throughout the delivery of the HS833 module.
Indicative content:
The third module of year one enables students to study more complex cases within Speech and Language Therapy including:
- Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia (DVD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Pragmatic Language Disorder / Social Pragmatic Communication Disorders (SPCD)
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Learning Disabilities (LD)
This module combines the use of interactive lectures, workshops and self-guided study to enable the student to critically appraise and apply their learning throughout delivery, grounding theoretical learning in practice.
Lectures:
Interactive lectures combine theory, case studies and student led activities
Independent:
This involves the student using learning resources such as recommended reading, course study notes, library resources and Communications Lab resources.
Online:
Resources are available through Moodle, professional and government websites and organisations in the third sector. Students are encouraged to access a range of online resources to support learning on this module.
Tutorials:
Available by appointment
Skills:
Application of theory to practice, professional reasoning skills and graduate employability skills are embedded throughout the delivery of the HS833 module.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Coursework |
3000-Word Assignment |
14/07/2025 |
100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Sara Garib-Penna, email: sgarib@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Sara Garib-Penna, Dr Nelly Joye, Katie Chadd and external contributors
hscsltadmin@essex.ac.uk - 01206 874496
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Prof Gary Morgan
city university
professor psychology
Available via Moodle
Of 12 hours, 12 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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