SPTH1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Speech-Language Pathology, Speech Production, Communicative Competence

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Speech Pathology
• Course: SPTH1001
• Professor: Joanne Walters

Document Summary

At any time, and entry-level speech pathologist in australia must be able to demonstrate competence in any unit in: paediatric speech pathology practice, and, adult speech pathology practice. Language: speech, swallowing, voice, fluency, multimodal communication. Morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology: multimodal communication. Communication and swallowing problems: may be associated with: structural impairment. Definitions: speech: production and reception of speech signal, language: formulation and comprehension of message, literacy: reading and writing, decoding and understanding written material, creating. International classification of functioning, disability and health (icf) Principles: notion of wellbeing not only in absence of disease, health is a fundamental human right (includes communication, contributes to peace and security, responsibility of states/governments to promote protect health of individuals. Body functions and structures condition (disorder or disease) Body functions (physiology of body systems) includes speech, language, communication & literacy (paul, norbury & gosse, 2017) structures involved in speech. Body structures (anatomy) nervous system, eye, ear etc. Part 2: contextual factors: activities and participation.