Professional externship I / Project I

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S

Courses

Teaching - Hours Contact hours: 3,46 Type Teacher Classes Hours Contact hours Totals 1 3,46 Ana Mendes   1,53 António Manuel Marques   0,40 Sónia Lima   1,53

Docência - Responsabilidades Teacher Responsability Sónia Marina Dias de Jesus Lima Head Ana Paula de Brito Garcia Mendes Head Antonio Manuel dos Reis Marques Colaborador

Teaching language

Portuguese/English

Objectives, competences and learning Outcomes

The Professional Internship I is a 11-ECTS graduate course that aims to provide students with skills in voice clinical practice (ie., identification, assessment, diagnosis and intervention in the spoken and sung voice). It is intended that students acquire and practice skills in real contexts, such as in institutions with speech therapy services and other settings with this need. On the first clinical practice contact, students should essentially reflect on all actions taken and should be supervised under the guidance of the clinical supervisor. It is also intended that all students’ actions have a scientific evidence. At the end of this course is intended that students acquire the necessary skills in voice area, essentials to clinical practice using adequate cognitive, communication, attitudinal and technical dimensions.

Working Project I is a 11-ECTS graduate course that aims to provide students with skills to formulate an educational project on a specific area of vocal health and hygiene promotion. Students must properly articulate the different project stages and reflect on the results and its impacts. It is expected that students buildup the following skills:
• Develop an intervention program, properly articulating its stages and dimensions;
• Identify appropriate and reliable strategies using instruments to assess project’s processes and results;
• Select appropriate and reliable strategies using instruments for an initial diagnosis, in order to support the project design stages;
• Justify theoretically and conceptually the formulated options;
• Predict the future sustainability of the project.

Main Contents

Traineeship I
1. Assessment
1.1. Communication and vocal condition: Identification of involved factors
1.2. Identification, definition and diagnosis of voice disorders
1.3. Relevant information
1.4. Relevant assessment
1.5. Clinical and scientific basis for diagnosis
2. Therapeutic intervention
2.1. Intervention plan
2.2. Strategies justification based-on context
2.3. Techniques and methodologies
2.4. Personal/emotional protection
3. Prevention
3.1. Collaboration with other health and/or education professionals on identification of individuals at risk
3.2. Safe working environment – bio-security standards
4. Counseling
4.1. Family members, caregivers and other professionals


Working Project I
1. Introduction to the principles and methodology of a working project, applied to the health promotion context;
2. Different stages of planning and programming a health promotion project;
3. Initial diagnosis as a prior requirement for a health promotion project;
4. Methodologies and tools for first assessment;
5. Buildup appropriate objectives and indicators under the guidance of the SMART model;
6. Theoretical justification of the methodology and organization options of the project;
7. Principles, methodologies and tools for final assessment (results, processes and impacts);
8. Principle of sustainability of future projects.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Professional Internship I
Students must practice and develop clinical skills in prevention, intervention and counseling in speech therapy. Their professional internship should follow the normal functioning of the institution without changing the conditions.
The direct and indirect clinical intervention should be always supervised. Students must have time and opportunity for research and studying cases and materials for an effective planning of their therapeutic actions. This professional internship takes place in a health and/or educational service institution with a caseload of pathological and/or non-pathological spoken and/or sung voice (re)habilitation.

Working Project I
Lecturing method will be used for contents from 1 to 8. Theoretical and practical experiments will be performed for contents from 4 to 8. An independent work with tutorial orientation will be also applied for individual students’ project.

Type of assessment

Assessment

Professional Internship I
The evaluation of this course will be performed by observing the application of practical skills in context (80%) and a written report based on clinical practice done at the institution (20%).

Working Project I
The evaluation will consist on the formulation of an intervention project focused on a vocal health and hygiene promotion project, selected by the institution or student, with faculty member agreement. The project must follow the integration of theoretical and practical dimensions of the course’s objectives and contents.

Pass Standard

Working Project I
The evaluation will consist on the formulation of an intervention project focused on a vocal health and hygiene promotion project, selected by the institution or student, with faculty member agreement. The project must follow the integration of theoretical and practical dimensions of the course’s objectives and contents.

Mandatory Bibliography