Clinical Methods in Speech-Language Therapy

At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. describe intuition, critical thinking, divergent thinking, creative thinking, and many others; 2. illustrate specific processes involved in making clinical decisions; 3. evaluate some evidence-based clinical issues; and 4. demonstrate how patients’ actions are useful for clinical reasoning and decision making.

Essential clinical procedures in Speech-Language Therapy. Knowledge and skills involved in clinical assessment, treatment and preventive interventions. Importance of acquisition of clinical reasoning, decision-making skills, treatment and preventive interventions. Processes of acquiring clinical reasoning, decision-making, treatment and preventive interventions. Factors determining the processe and use of reasoning and decisions made in practical or clinical settings. Development and use of evidence-based principles in clinical Speech-Language practice. Stage II (400 Level: Professional Year II)