UndergraduateNursing & Health Sciences
Bachelor of Speech Pathology
Australian Catholic University, Multi-campus (7 campuses, 5 states), Australia
About this program
Speech pathologists recognise the importance of communication and swallowing as activities that enable people to participate fully in their daily lives. They work with individuals, groups, families, and communities to support the development, rehabilitation and maintenance of effective communication and swallowing skills across the lifespan. Our speech pathology program will prepare you to assess and diagnose difficulties with speech, language, voice, fluency, multi-modal communication and swallowing, and enable you to provide intervention and support that is person-centred, culturally-sensitive and evidence-based. You’ll recognise the dignity of the human person and your responsibility towards the common good, and have opportunities to put your values, knowledge and skills into action with professional practice and community engagement activities in Australia and overseas. In collaboration with the team from Refraction media, we have created a number of Job Kits to give you an insight into various professions. We hope that these will inform and inspire you to choose the career path that is right for you. You can read about the day in the life of a student, what our graduates are doing now, how our expert academics have shaped the industry and what your study options are. Check out the Speech Pathologist Job Kit, a great resource that will help you decide if speech pathology is for you. Work placement Students in the Bachelor of Speech Pathology undertake a range of professional practice placements to ensure they meet Speech Pathology Australia's graduate entry competency with regard to the management of disorders of communication and swallowing. As part of your course, you will be placed in a range of organisations to integrate the theory you learn with practical workplace experiences (placements). You will undertake industry placements each semester, starting in first year. Our integrating practice units are designed to help you contextualise theoretical knowledge through clinical practice. • Year 1: Observation day. • Year 2: Approximately 8 half-days of a simulation experience in Semester 1; approximately 12 half-days of placement in Semester 2. • Year 3: Ap
Fees & duration
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Course structure
- Completion requirements To qualify for the degree, a student must complete 320 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of: 40 cp from Inter-professional Units (Part A)
- 170cp from Speech Pathology Theory Units (Part B)
- 90 cp from Integration and Practice Units (Part C)
- 20 cp from Core Curriculum Units (Part D)
- Exit points A student who has successfully completed 220 to 230cp from the Bachelor of Speech Pathology units excluding the Core Curriculum units
- and 10 to 20cp from the Core Curriculum units may exit with the following qualification: Bachelor of Allied Health Core / specified units include: ALHT106: Psychology for Allied Health
- HLSC120: Indigenous Health and Culture
- ALHT210: Neuroscience for Allied Health
- ALHT211: Research and Evidence - Informed Practice in Allied Health
- SPHY100: Communication and Development Across the Lifespan
- SPHY102: Anatomy and Physiology for Speech Pathology
- SPHY103: Linguistics and Phonetics for Speech Pathology
- SPHY105: Foundations of Speech Pathology Practice
- SPHY201: Language Disorders (Developmental)
- SPHY202: Language Disorders (Acquired)
- SPHY209: Speech disorders (developmental) and hearing
- SPHY205: Motor Speech Disorders (Acquired)
- SPHY301: Swallowing, Feeding, and Mealtime across the Lifespan
- SPHY303: Voice Disorders Across the Lifespan
- SPHY304: Fluency Disorders Across the Lifespan
- SPHY309: Language, literacy and cognition across the lifespan. The full schedule includes further elective and core curriculum units (40 unit offerings in total)
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Admissions
Year 12 completion (or equivalent), ATAR 81.20 for Brisbane. An applicant must also comply with the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy. To be eligible for admission to the Bachelor of Speech Pathology, an applicant must have completed the following prerequisites at year 12 level, or equivalent:Australian Capital TerritoryA study score of at least 133 in English-T (Major) or ESL (Major); and a study score of at least 97 in one of Biology-T, Chemistry-T, or Physics-T.New South Wales. English (Standard) (Band 4) or English as an Additional Language or Dialect (Band 4); plus at least one of Biology, Chemistry, or Physics, (Band 2).Queensland. English (Units 3 & 4, C); one of Biology, Chemistry, or Physics (Units 3 & 4, C)Victoria. Units 3 and 4 - a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or 25 in any English other than EAL; and a study score of at least 25 in one of Biology, Chemistry, or Physics . Disclaimer: The course entry requirements above are for 2027 Admission. Refer to your relevant Tertiary Admission Centre website for future years' entry requirements.
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