Course Description: This course will provide basic understanding of the main types of clinical reasoning, Transform a patient's story into a meaningful clinical problem. This course will enlist several classic diagnostic errors and how to avoid them. It will also prioritize diagnostic testing for a virtual patient in small groups. It will help in practice formulating a differential diagnosis, assessment and a prioritized plan for the standardized patient.
Learning Outcomes:
• Students will be able to differentially diagnose various speech and language disorders
• Students will be able to apply best counseling strategies in different settings.
• Students will have confidence to work with multidisciplinary team
• Students will be able to implement different formal and informal procedures necessary for speech and language therapy
Course Content:
• Application of knowledge to clinical problem solving in order to identify and meet clients’ needs and formulate management rationales;
• Definition and scope of counselling, the place of empathic responding, and the application of counselling skills in speech and language contexts, with specific reference to adults with acquired neurological communication disorders;
• Clinical presentation of Disorders of communication
• Making a Diagnosis
• Models and strategies for clinical problem solving, including;
• Assimilation of relevant contextual information and influences on decision making, including personal values and belief systems, client expectations, population needs
• Making differential diagnoses
• Assessing likely outcomes of intervention
• Incorporating research evidence in clinical decision making
• Case load prioritisation management
• The importance of collaboration with other team members
• Skills in judging when to modify, suspend or terminate intervention, and assessing quality of life issues
• Implementing Formal Assessment tools for Speech, Language and Swallowing disorders, Designing Checklists/ Rating scales for Informal assessments
• Designing Individualized Therapeutic Intervention plan and devising IEPs
• Working in a Multidisciplinary team.
• Counseling
• Theories and approaches to counseling
• Structure of counseling situations
• Stages of a counseling relationship
• Development of counseling skills
• Stress and stress management
• Specific applications relevant to Speech and Language Therapy
• Grief counseling
• Family systems therapy
