This course provides an innovative, contemporary and holistic-based approach for registered Speech and Language Therapists and Health Care Professionals to acquire theoretical knowledge and practical application of the assessment and management of service users with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

• The course has been co-developed by Senior Academics, practising Speech and Language Therapists and Health Care Professionals with extensive clinical experience.
• The accessible and inclusive content will reflect and represent contemporary issues including clinical decision making across the lifespan, legal/ethical/professional dilemmas, mental capacity, safeguarding and challenging conversations.
• Service users and/or carers with lived experiences of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties will form an integral part of authentic teaching and learning opportunities that will facilitate a collaborative and person-centred approach to assessment and management from the outset.
• Through work-based learning, the integration of theory with practical skills, will facilitate the consolidation of clinical competencies as well as a foundation for continual professional development.

 

Teaching and assessment

Teaching, learning and assessment strategies are designed to offer you a variety of opportunities that align with the module learning outcomes and enable realistic and effective preparation to autonomously undertake the assessment and management of service users with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

 

This course will follow an accessible and inclusive blended-learning approach, with lectures, seminars and work-based learning combined with high-quality online content designed to inspire and stimulate you to engage in the module and develop your own theoretical knowledge and practical application. Learners will be encouraged to participate in continual reflective practice, particularly through guided independent study. Service users and/or carers will be involved. In addition, individual and group work will be utilised, including the sharing of experiences between learners in the formation of an ongoing community of practice.

 

Assessment aims to support learning and to measure achievement. This will be undertaken through a variety of methods including a written case study assignment and competency-based portfolio. Your module specification and course handbook will provide full details of assessment-related information.

 

All aspects of the module will be supported by digital resources in the virtual learning environment (VLE). The VLE is an information source for all aspects of teaching, learning and assessment which can be accessed remotely.