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SPH534 Cultural competency and community development as speech pathology practice (8)

Abstract

In this subject, you will further develop your reflective practice skills, by exploring your own values and beliefs, and critiquing speech pathology practices when working with linguistically and culturally diverse populations, with a focus on Indigenous Australian people, languages and culture. You will extend your cultural competence and explore the importance of cultural safety when engaging with individuals, families and communities.

In this subject you will participate in a range of online learning experiences with academic staff from the speech pathology program and the School of Indigenous Australian Studies. You will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge and learn from others in interactive activities including completing structured discussion threads/topics and independent study.

To demonstrate mastery of these learning outcomes and learning experiences you will develop and maintain a reflective blog that demonstrates the development of your cultural competence through reflection on your own attitudes and values as well as those of the speech pathology profession. Based on your knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity, you will critique speech pathology assessment materials and practices, and prepare a professional position statement. You will also engage in a group-based case study which is created to simulate a workplace learning context, and based on this experience develop a professional position statement for culturally safe speech pathology practice.

You will use the CSU Learning Management System, Interact2, an e-portfolio tool (Pebblepad), and other online and audio-visual technologies to engage in learning activities with your peers and to complete assessment tasks.


+ Subject Availability Modes and Location

Session 3
DistanceAlbury-Wodonga Campus
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: SPH534
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject information

Duration Grading System School:
One sessionHD/FLSchool of Community Health

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • Critically reflect on your own cultural competence, and application of cultural safety when engaging with individuals, families and communities, in a way that demonstrates knowledge of reflective frameworks and cultural and linguistic models of language. This will be demonstrated by maintaining a reflective blog, critiquing speech pathology assessment practices, and writing a professional position statement.
  • Identify and justify personal learning goals relating to the development of cultural competence/safety and strategies for achieving those goals. This will be demonstrated by maintaining a reflective blog.
  • Critically reflect on how knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Australian cultures, histories and contemporary contexts, facilitate or challenge speech pathology service provision, and how this knowledge can lead to culturally safe practice when working with Indigenous clients and/or communities. This will be demonstrated in a reflective blog, critiquing speech pathology assessment practices, and writing a professional position statement.
  • Apply culturally safe research principles and procedures to the evaluation of the communication and/or swallowing needs within a community. This will be demonstrated by critiquing speech pathology assessment practices and writing a professional position statement.
  • Critique cultural understandings of language and the role of language as an expression and negotiation of relationships of belonging, exclusion and becoming. This will be demonstrated in reflective blog journal entries and critiquing speech pathology assessment practices.
  • Use technical, creative and communication skills, including a range of written and ICT skills to communicate with non-specialist audiences. This will be demonstrated by critiquing speech pathology assessment practices, maintaining a reflective blog, and writing a professional position statement.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:
  • Linguistic and cultural diversity in Australia
  • Community Development models of speech pathology practice
  • Cultural Competence Framework
  • Indigenous Cultures, Histories and Contemporary Realities
  • Cultural Safety
  • Language, linguistics and culture
  • Speech Pathology Practice in culturally and linguistically diverse populations

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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.