Unit Outline

This capstone unit consolidates your clinical reasoning and requires you to integrate and apply the knowledge, skills, and professional attributes developed throughout the course. In this unit, you prepare to enter the speech pathology profession and respond to individual, family, and community level needs in complex and changing practice contexts. Two speech pathology practice areas, disability and fluency, are a specific focus of the unit. The unit adopts a case-based and lifespan focus to cases with co-existing and multi-faceted communication and/or swallowing needs. You will integrate the advocacy, leadership, research, and cultural responsiveness skills you have previously developed in the course, with competent evidence-based and client-centred clinical reasoning. You will apply different approaches to ethical reasoning (e.g. ethics of care, narrative approach, casuistry) to support quality and safety management. Through the application of these professional frameworks and skills to complex case management, you will demonstrate integrated speech pathology professional competencies appropriate for entry to the profession.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1.	Integrate holistic case data and professional context with theory, evidence, and practice frameworks to respond to complex and multi-faceted communication and swallowing needs of individuals and/or communities.
2.	Justify holistic, evidence-based, and culturally responsive management or service response plans to optimise communication and/or swallowing where there is complexity and co-existing needs.
3.	Apply ethical decision-making frameworks to professional practice scenarios, and justify responses to ethical situations.
4.	Demonstrate advocacy, leadership, research skills, and cultural responsiveness to evaluate quality and safety of service responses and professional development needs.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	CXA735 Optimising Communication and Swallowing 2 AND CXA729 Speech Pathology Practice 3
Concurrent Pre-requisite	CXA745 Speech Pathology Practice 4 AND CXA713 Transitioning to Community-Based Allied Health Practice

Alterations as a result of student feedback

This is the first time this unit has been delivered, so there are no alterations to note. Student feedback will inform future unit developments.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Integrated practice management: Fluency	Week 6	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	Integrated practice management: Disability	Week 11	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:	Integrated practice management: Scope of practice	Refer to Assessment Description	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Integrated practice management: Fluency

Task Description:

This assessment presents a contemporary and authentic situation in the practice area of fluency that requires ethical decision-making and integration with clinical reasoning, drawing on advocacy, leadership and research skills. You will be provided with detailed case information that you will analyse and interpret. You will develop and justify an intervention plan. This plan will demonstrate use of an ethical decision-making framework to explore client-centred care and application of evidence-based practice. This is a hurdle task. You must pass this assessment task to be eligible for a pass in the unit. This task assesses core competencies to demonstrate readiness for entry to the profession.

Task Length:

2000 words + 5 minute oral viva (online)

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Analyse and interpret case assessment and observation data, integrating theory and research.	LO1
2	Justify client-centred, holistic and evidence-based intervention plans.	LO1, LO2
3	Apply an ethical decision-making framework to consider ethical issues.	LO3, LO4
4	Demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills in clinical reasoning and management planning.	LO4

Assessment Task 2: Integrated practice management: Disability

Task Description:

This assessment presents a contemporary and authentic situation in the practice area of disability. You will be provided with case information that you will analyse and interpret. You will develop and justify an intervention plan. You will examine and justify their response to the scenario using an ethical decision-making framework and clinical reasoning skills. Your response will demonstrate your responsiveness to cultural and linguistic diversity, advocacy, and research skills. This is a hurdle task. You must pass this assessment task to be eligible for a pass in the unit. This task assesses core competencies to demonstrate readiness for entry to the profession.

Task Length:

2000 words

Due Date:

Week 11

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Analyse and interpret case assessment and observation data, integrating theory and research.	LO1
2	Justify client-centred, holistic and evidence-based assessment and intervention plans.	LO1, LO2
3	Apply an ethical decision-making framework to consider ethical issues.	LO3, LO4
4	Advocate for cultural responsiveness in clinical reasoning and management planning.	LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment Task 3: Integrated practice management: Scope of practice

Task Description:

This assessment presents a complex professional scenario. You will analyse and interpret the scenario information provided and analyse your role as a speech pathologist in this context and your competency and scope of practice as you formulate and evaluate alternative responses to the situation. You will demonstrate your ability to integrate the professional context with theory, evidence, and practice frameworks. You will demonstrate use of ethical decision-making, professional development planning, and quality and safety frameworks to present an analysis of possible responses.

Task Length:

10-minute video with supporting presentation documentation (1 page summary handout)

Due Date:

Refer to Assessment Description

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Analyse the speech pathology role and scope of practice in a complex professional scenario integrating the professional context with theory, evidence, and practice frameworks.	LO1, LO2
2	Apply an ethical decision-making framework to consider ethical issues in the scenario.	LO3, LO4
3	Evaluate quality and safety issues for alternative response options to the situation.	LO3, LO4
4	Advocate for professional development requirements.	LO2, LO3, LO4

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Review of results and appeals

You are entitled to ask for a review of the marking and grading of your assessment task if there is an irregularity in the marking standards or an error in the process for determining the outcome of an assessment. Details on how to request a review of a mark for an assignment are outlined in the Review and Appeal of Academic Decisions Procedure.