This unit focuses on developmental language disorders in children and adolescents; and the impact of language difficulty on literacy acquisition and academic success. The unit is divided into two main modules: Assessment, including analysis, interpretation and diagnosis; and Management/Intervention. The impact of cultural and linguistic diversity will also be explored.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Integrate knowledge from a range of sources (normal speech and language development, data from interaction and assessment) to determine a diagnosis of language delay/disorder in children and adolescents;
2. Plan and provide safe, quality, ethical and evidence-based clinical assessment procedures for language and literacy disorders in children and adolescents;
3. Analyse, interpret, diagnose and report on assessments of language and literacy in children and adolescents to facilitate differential diagnosis;
4. Explain assessment outcomes to diverse audiences;
5. Work collaboratively with individuals, families and communities to plan client centred evidence-based management/intervention for language and literacy disorders in children and adolescents; and
6. Modify assessments and interventions for diverse client populations e.g. children with cerebral palsy, bilingual children; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

10266 Foundations of Communication Science PG AND 10268 Clinical Speech Pathology 1 PG.

Corequisites

11980 Speech Disorders Across the Life Span PG.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.