Speech and Language Therapy
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MSc Overview | Information for Year A | Information for Year B |
The understanding of speech and language pathology is central to the
philosophy of this course. Students are introduced to disorders of
communication and the contributing disciplines which allow them to
study and understand clients with such disorders. From this, their
studies lead towards an understanding of normal communication and its
development. Professional and clinical studies, including clinical
practical work, run concurrently with other relevant theoretical
studies and afford students opportunities to examine hypotheses and
theoretical notions in the light of their practical experience.
As mature entrants with at
least one qualification, students have already had the opportunity to
develop study and communication skills. Given their life experience and
established study skills, students will be expected to synthesize and
integrate knowledge and consequently to integrate theory and practice
from the beginning of the course. Emphasis is placed on experiential
teaching and learning methods.
The course is designed to
enable students to take responsibility for their own learning. Students
are encouraged and enabled to undertake individually directed study in
specifically allocated private study time, and organise their clinical
tutorial work with the support of a clinical tutor.
Students will be introduced at a
theoretical level to a wide and comprehensive range of communication
disorders. Through video, demonstration, and observation opportunities
students will gain knowledge about a wide range of client groups and
disorders. However, they will not be expected to come into contact
with, or personally work with, the entire range of speech and language
disordered clients during clinical placements. Emphasis will be placed
on the development of transferable clinical skills which they will then
be able to generalise and apply across any client group and context.
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