2020/2021
Practicum II
Code: 101697 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500893 Speech therapy | OB | 3 | A |
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.
Contact
- Name:
- Carrasumada Serrano Pau
- Email:
- Carrasumada.Serrano@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Sonia Vilaltella Verdes
Prerequisites
Having obtained the basic knowledge that is given during the first two years of the degree of Speech Therapy and which provide a solid basis for the student to be able to start their applied-professional type training, which will be done in the language rehabilitation center and of the communication that has been assigned to him.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Since the training is carried out in a center of internships at the University in which the student is in contact with professionals of the speech therapy and patients, the subject contemplates three fundamental objectives:
- that the student knows the conditions under which the work of speech therapy in the center where the Practicum is carried out, which presupposes the relationship with professionals from other disciplines (psychologists, doctors, physiotherapists, etc.) other institutions (EAP, nursery schools, CEIP)
- that the student knows the techniques of evaluation and of logopedic treatment according to the characteristics of the patients attended the center
- Let the student know and find out the needs presented by the families of the patients and at the same time know the appropriate resources for the advice and the specific intervention.
Competences
- Act appropriately with respect to the profession’s ethical code: respect professional confidentiality, apply professional criteria in the completion and referral of treatment.
- Advise users’ families and their general social environment, thereby promoting their participation and collaboration in speech-therapy treatment.
- Appraise personal intervention and that of others so as to optimise this.
- Design, implement and evaluate actions aimed at preventing communication and language disorders.
- Explore, evaluate, diagnose and produce a prognosis of development for disorders of communication and language, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
- Make decisions and take responsibility for them.
- Observe and listen actively throughout the various processes of speech therapy intervention.
- Organise and plan with the aim of establishing a plan for development within a set period.
- Prepare and write reports on examination and diagnosis, monitoring, termination and referral
- Use the exploratory techniques and instruments pertaining to the profession, and register, synthesise and interpret the data provided by integrating this into an overall information set.
- Working in intra- and interdisciplinary teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying the most appropriate techniques for the evaluation of patients.
- Appraise personal intervention and that of others so as to optimise this.
- Demonstrate respect for the ethical code of the profession when carrying out professional practicals.
- Describe the characteristics of language, speech, voice or deglutition in patients, on the basis of observation.
- Design measures to promote communication skills in the population.
- Establish guidelines that help in advising relatives to collaborate in the treatment.
- Make decisions and take responsibility for them.
- Observe professional performance in the centre and describe that performance in the report on the work-placment period in the training centre.
- Organise and plan with the aim of establishing a plan for development within a set period.
- Prepare and correctly write examination and diagnosis, monitoring, termination and referral reports.
- Produce a diagnosis and prognosis of patient outcomes.
- Use and interpret diagnostic tests.
- Working in intra- and interdisciplinary teams.
Content
The contents depend on the type of patients treated and on the characteristics of each center. In any case, the subject is characterized by the realization of pre-professional practices, with a final assessment of competences. These practices should allow the student to achieve professional values and competencies aimed at:
- Practical knowledge of the speech therapy evaluation
- The strategic planning of the speech therapy intervention
- Practical training for individual, group and cooperative work
- Knowledge of the professional performance and the environments in which the practice is developed
- Personal resources for intervention: social and communicative skills, professional skills, assessment of professional performance, observation techniques, dynamization techniques or decision making
- The use of information and communication technologies.
- Search for documentation and specific information.
Methodology
The teaching methodology takes into account the activities carried out by the tutor of the practicum, the academic tutor and the student.
Regarding the tutor of the practicum the programmed activities are the following:
- plan the training activities of the students in the center of practices
- guide and follow the student's work
- Evaluate the work of the student by means of a report written at the end of the semester
- oversee the memory that the student of practices has to present at the end of the Practicum.
Regarding the academic tutor, the programmed activities are the following:
- Inform about the different centers of the Practicum (typology of patients treated, intervention techniques, schedules)
-information of the corresponding evaluation procedure
- Conduct a final evaluation that integrates, the evaluation of the practice tutor and the written memory
Regarding the student the programmed activities are the following:
A) Attendance at the center of the Practicum, in which the student must complete a minimum of 75 hours in person.
The student can perform, among others, the following activities (depending on the availability of the center)
- observation of evaluation and intervention sessions
- case tracking
- direct participation in the sessions
- participation in work sessions
- information to the center's tutor of the evaluation activities that must be carried out at the UAB and its process of completion.
B) activities at the UAB
- assistance (if applicable) to tutorials
- preparation of the final report
The proposed teaching and assessment methodologies may experience some modifications as a result of the restrictions on face-to-face learning imposed by the health authorities.
The teaching staff will use the Moodle classroom or the usual communication channel to specify whetherthe different directed and assessment activities are to be carried out
on site or online, as instructed by the Faculty
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Practices in centers | 75 | 3 | 1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 13, 12 |
| Assistance (if applicable) to tutorials and / or meetings | 5 | 0.2 | 3, 11, 9, 7 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of the final report | 70 | 2.8 | 2, 4, 5, 10, 6, 9 |
Assessment
The competences of this subject will be assessed taking into account several aspects:
- The use report of the center's internship tutor based on the attitude of the student, his initiative and active participation, his abilities with relatives and patients. This section constitutes 75% of the note. In case the tutor or tutor of the center value less than 5, the following year will be required to repeat the Practicum. It will also be necessary to repeat the Practicum II if the center's guardian informs that the number of hours of completion of the Practicum has not been agreed (75).
- elaboration of the work of the stay in the center of practices in written memory format of the characteristics of the center, of the patients attended and of the activities carried out, according to script and requirements that will be attached to the Virtual Campus: 25%
Not evaluable: the student who has not completed the number of hours of attendance at the center (75hs)
Recovery. Students who have not passed the subject but have a final grade of continuous evaluation greater than or equal to 4 (40%) will be able to recover only the corresponding part of the memory of the center in case the note of this evidence is inadequate
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report of the center's tutor | 75 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 6, 9, 12 |
| Final report | 25 | 0 | 0 | 3, 5, 8, 7, 13 |
Bibliography
The relevant bibliography will depend on the typology of the patients treated and the characteristics of each center. The student has the obligation to search for suitable bibliography in relation to the pathologies that he observes in the centers, and to relate this information with the analysis of the case that is described in the final memory or in other sections of the memory that is consider it appropriate. This requirement will be considered indispensable to be able to evaluate and approve the practice report.