PREREQUISITE COURSES:  Clinical Practice ΙI (6^th Semester), Aphasia and Related Cognitive Disorders (5^th Semester), 
Voice Disorders (5^th Semester), Fluency Disorders - Stuttering (3^rd Semester)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon the completion of the course, students are expected to be able to provide speech and language therapy to children with greater autonomy than they demonstrated in Clinical Practice I. This will entail a more advanced level of competence, as outlined below:

• Conduct an adequate interview with the relevant patient’s case history
• Conduct an orofacial examination of adults
• Demonstrate understanding of the differences between different assessment tasks for adults
• Analysis history and results of the assessment, and draw appropriate conclusions
• Develop and implement scientifically based treatment program, considering individual client needs
• Formulate speech and language therapy goals
• Write long-term/short-term goals, assessment reports, session plans, and SOAP notes
• Apply speech therapy techniques and collect data during the session
• Evaluate and re-evaluate the results of the therapeutic intervention of the individual client, taking into account progress and any changes to the client's circumstances

• Systematically update clinical records in the clinical context they are attending
  

GENERAL COMPETENCES

• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Promoting free, creative and deductive thinking
• Critical data analysis
• Decision-making
• Develop Independent & Teamwork Abilities
• Exercising critical and self-critical thinking
• Demonstrating social, professional and ethical responsibility
• Promotion of free, creative thinking

SYLLABUS

Short Course Description:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the clinical experience of adult cases with disorders of voice, fluency, language, speech, feeding, and swallowing. Within this framework, students, in collaboration with their supervisor, will be introduced to clinical skills by conducting patient interviews (case history taking), using non-standardized and standardized assessment tools, formulating long-term and short-term goals, writing assessment reports, developing session plans, applying speech and language therapy techniques, and collecting data during therapy sessions. In addition, students are expected to be able to write SOAP notes at the end of each session and review them with their supervisor. Finally, students will practice the above skills in class and discuss clinical cases in two-hour sessions. The emphasis of this clinical practice course is on adult cases with the main disorders mentioned above or any other disorder.

The course consists of 13 sessions.
Course units:

• Clinical Approach, Rehabilitation Models
• Case History Taking in Specific Groups of Adult Patients & Assessment of Orofacial Structures
• Assessment Procedures / Tests of Language & Communication
• Assessment Procedures / Tests of Speech
• Assessment Procedures / Tests of Voice
• Assessment Procedures / Tests of Feeding & Swallowing
• Assessment Procedures / Tests of Cognitive Processes
• Therapeutic Interventions for Language & Communication
• Therapeutic Interventions for Speech
• Therapeutic Interventions for Voice
• Therapeutic Interventions for Feeding & Swallowing
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• Structure and Organization of Therapeutic Intervention

TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

Activity	Semester workload
Lectures	26
Clinical Practice - Case assessment  and speech and language therapy	93
Non-directed study: Independent  personal study and case portfolio writing	55
Writing reports and notes of all kinds	74
Final Examination	2
Course total	250 hours (10 ECTS)

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Language of Evaluation: Greek

50% of the final grade will derive from the clinical settings.

50% of the final grade will derive from the theoretical component of the course:
A) 35% from the final written examination, which will include short-answer questions, multiple-choice questions, and clinical cases
B) 15% from group assignments

Maximum allowed absences in the clinical settings: 2 absences

Relevant information is announced on the course e-class platform.

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

• Burns, M. (Επιμ). (2025). Cognitive and Communication Interventions: Neuroscientific Approaches in Speech and Language Therapy. Nicosia: BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD. Code in Eudoxos [143552606]
• Baehr M., & Frotscher M. (2009). Duus localization diagnosis in neurology. Constantara Publications. Code in Eudox [37342].
• Stokes, M., & Stack, E. (Επιμ). (2016). Details Clinical Management for Neurological Conditions. Parisianou Code in Eudoxos [50660079]
• Elsevier (Επιμ). (2021). Effective Communication for health care managers. Constadaras: Athens, https://service.eudoxus.gr/search/#a/id:102072009/0. Code in Eudoxos [133037000]
• Mesulam, Μ. M. (Eπιμ). (2010). Principles of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. Broken Hill. Code of Eudox [13256287]

Academic journals

• American Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
• Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica       
• Aphasiology 

Electronic books and/or articles

• Froma R. P., & Colleen W. K., (2016). Handbook of speech therapy. Paschalidis Medical Publications. Hambrecht G., & Rice T. (2020). clinical assessment workbook for communication sciences and disorders. Plural Pub.
• Hedge, M. (2009). A course manual for scientific and professional writing in speech-language pathology. Delmar.
• Hedge, M. N. & Davis, D. (2009). Clinical methods and practice in speech-language pathology (International edition). Delmar.
• Hegde M. N. & Kuyumjian K. (2020). Clinical methods and practice in speech-language pathology. Plural.
• McCauley, R. J., Fey, M. E., Gillam E. (2017). Treatment of language disorders in children (CLI). baltimore: Paul. H. Brookers.
• Owens, R. E. (2016). Language disorders. A practical approach to assessment and intervention. GOTSIS.
• Pindzola, R. H., Plexico, L. W., & Haynes, W. O. (2016). Diagnosis and assessment in speech-language pathology. Pearson.

COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2539/index.php