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Author Brumfitt, Shelagh

Title Innovations in Professional Education for Speech and Language Therapy
Published Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages)
Contents Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Perspectives in professional education, an overview; Part I Aspects of the process; Chapter 1 Education for competent speech and language therapy practice; Chapter 2 Case-based problem solving for speech and language therapy students; Chapter 3 Peer placements; Chapter 4 The transition from speech and language therapy student to newly qualified professional; Part II Specific educational contexts; Chapter 5 Approaches to teaching dysphagia to speech and language therapy students
Chapter 6 Fit for practice: new models for clinical placementsPart III Information technology: developments and applications; Chapter 7 Getting professional education online; Chapter 8 Case-based teaching and clinical reasoning: seeing how students think with PATSy; Index
Summary The methods by which a student becomes a speech and language therapist have developed since the 1970s and have been influenced by different models of higher and professional education. Although it is comparatively easy to change an aspect of course content, for example to increase the number of learning hours on autism, the means by which the student learns to become a competent professional in practice are more complex. This text discusses some of the exciting ways we are examining issues in professional education. It covers actual content (for example the introduction of dysphagia to the cur
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Subject Speech therapy -- Study and teaching
Therapeutics -- Study and teaching
Speech therapy -- Study and teaching
Therapeutics -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780470778005
0470778008