Course Overview
The four year undergraduate Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) course at UCC opened with 25 students in September 2003.
Its general outline is determined by the accreditation guidelines of
the Irish association of Speech and Therapists (IASLT), the
professional body of speech and language therapists in Ireland. These
guidelines mandate that the following subject areas form the core
knowledge base for student speech and language therapists:
Communication Disorders (Speech Pathology)
Speech and Hearing Sciences (Physics of Speech and Hearing)
Language Sciences (Linguistics)
Behavioural Sciences (Psychology)
Bio-medical Sciences (Anatomy & Physiology)
Course Outline
While the course is packaged into the modular structure required by
the College, the department of speech and hearing sciences has planned
an intra-Faculty problem-based learning (PBL) mode of delivery for a
major part of the curriculum, with a significant part of the students’
learning experience being in the form of problem-based tutorials. We
will however take advantage of the Faculty’s expertise, in Anatomy and
Physiology especially, for the Medical Science components of the
course. The modules for which PBL tutorials are central are: SL1003,
SL2004, SL2005, SL3004 and SL3005. The tutorials will be supported by
lectures, workshops, practicums, case studies, in Speech and Hearing
Sciences (SL1002, SL2003, SL3003), Language Sciences (SL1001, SL2001,
SL3001) and Behavioural Sciences (CT2001, CT3001). Relevant aspects of
the Behavioural Sciences are directly taught in psychology workshops
and lectures as part of the communication disorders course.
