Speech and Language Therapy – Clinical Process

What you have to do:

Written coursework: You will be presented with the results of assessment for two clients (1 adult, 1 child). One of these will be used as a formative piece of work, the second will act as your summative assessment. This assignment is designed to allow you to demonstrate very practical skills which mirror the expectations of these core skills in practice, so it does not need to be in essay form but does need to clearly demonstrate teach of the skills below. A template has been developed to provide you with headings and a structure to scaffold your writing.

Formative Case Study

The first of these cases will be used to work through as a formative piece of work, for which you will be able to draw on what you are learning about goal setting/intervention planning on placement, as well as link to the content of the taught sessions. This will be submitted as a draft and you will receive feedback on it. You will need to show that you understand how to:

1. Analyse the information gathered through case history taking and assessment results,

2. Decide which information is relevant in terms of initial goal setting; what additional information you may need and a plan as to how to get it.

3. Demonstrate structured clinical reasoning/ development of a rationale to devise goals for evidence-based intervention, demonstrating collaboration with the individual and the functional holistic context of the intervention chosen.

4. Identify a range of possible interventions which would be applicable to this client’s needs and context, and the evidence base supporting these choices.

5. Include the process for measuring the outcomes of intervention selected.

Once you have completed the formative case study, you will have the option of submitting it for feedback, which you can then use to apply to the second case study, along with a brief paragraph to describe how you used the feedback to work on the summative case study.