| CODE | CMT3313 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Alternative Service Delivery | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Communication Therapy | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The placement is related to specific aspects of alternative service delivery. The students will be guided to plan, implement and evaluate a prevention and early intervention programme related to speech and language acquisition. The sessions will be run with a group of children and their main carers within the Teaching and Research Clinic of the FHS. The children's speech and language skills will be assessed prior to and at the end of the programme sessions. Any progress in the children's communication skills will therefore be recorded objectively and evaluated. The carers are guided in relation to stimulation of speech and language acquisition within the home setting. Study-unit Aims: To enable the student to apply the basic concepts studied in the Communication Therapy courses. The student is encouraged to discover different ways of looking at clinical challenges by using an alternative mode of service delivery as a source of data that can be dealt within a variety of ways. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - integrate all s/he has learnt during lectures and tutorials; - assess, diagnose as well as manage children at risk of communication difficulties; - deal with data from clients with Maltese or English as a first language or those who are simultaneously bilingual. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Plan and implement a specific prevention and early intervention programme related to the acquisition of speech and language skills; - assess and evaluate children at risk of communication difficulties; - provide guidance related to the stimulation of speech and language development to carers of children; - manage effectively challenging behaviour of children. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: The following are used as the main texts but students are expected to consult other publications as directed by the Lecturers concerned. - Developmental Disorders of Language. (2nd ed.) - Adams C., Byers Brown B. & Edwards M. (1997). Whurr Pub. - Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy - Beech, J.R., & Harding, L. (Eds.). (1993). U.K. Routledge. - Introduction to Language Pathology - Crystal D. (1990). Whurr Pub. - Assessment in Speech Language Pathology: A Resource Manual (2nd ed.) - Shipley, K.G., & MacAfee, J.G. (1998). Singular Pub. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Practical | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | May Agius Estelle Zahra |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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