Duration
Internship : 360h Internship
Internship support seminar : 20h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in speech and language therapy (120 ECTS) | 18 crédits |
Lecturer
Internship : Brigitte Lejeune, Christelle Maillart
Internship support seminar : Brigitte Lejeune, Christelle Maillart
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Internship
The placement concerning the specialisation in communication and disability is a minimum of 360 hours. The student must spend at least 360 hours at the placement and take part in a placement support seminar. They can spend the amount of time allocated to the placement in different places, in which case, each place will be the subject of a specific agreement.
The placement support seminar aims to develop the student's clinical skills and better prepare them for their future as a professional. This seminar is carried out in small groups and deals with themes proposed by the students, allowing them to also share information on relationship, ethical and deontological aspects associated with the practice of speech & language therapy.
Internship support seminar
Seminars revolve around complex situations encountered by students during their intership. They aim the student's reflection on his clinical work, collaboration with peers to identify ways to explore, and the confrontation of the opinions on the relational and ethics aspects related to speech therapy practice.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Internship
The placement objectives are determined according to ULg's speech and language therapy competency framework. The placement is essentially aimed at the development of three clinical competences in students: assess, treat and assist a patient with a problem that falls under the scope of speech and language therapy. The placement also deals with the horizontal competences of collaboration, communication, professionalism, erudition. Within this scope, the justification of the clinical actions proposed by the student, based on scientific literature, and the development of appropriate professional attitudes, are the essential competences to be achieved by the end of the placement.
Internship support seminar
Seminars help the student to 1) Present to peers relevant elements of a complex situation encountered in professional practice ; 2) To question his practice and consider the opinion of his peers ; 3) Get involved in a process of Evidence-Based Practice to improve the quality of professional practice ; 4) Collaborate with peers and contribute to the group discussion ; 5) Integrate ethical dimension of professional practice of the speech therapist.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Internship
see study programme
Internship support seminar
YSTG9028-2
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Internship
The internship will be supervised by a speech and language pathologist acting as a tutor, someone chosen by the internship teachers as a group. At the beginning of patient evaluation, the tutor and the student will agree on modes of supervision. The tutor's goal is to help the student gradually take responsibility, shifting from mere observer status to partial therapeutic autonomy.
Internship support seminar
The SAS are organized with student subgroups (9 to 12 students). At each seminar, a student present a complex situation encountered during his intership. The instructions for this presentation are announced at the first seminar. After each presentation, a moment of discussion and exchange with other students is organized.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Internship
The aim of the placement is to ensure the clinical application of the classes taught at the University of Liège in a professional environment. Students won't ever be asked to perform any tasks they haven't learnt in class.
The placement will begin as soon as students have passed the master 1 in speech & language therapy. They should have finished them by the end of the second session of exams in the master 2 year (end August) at the latest. It is the work placement mentor (for the main placement) who counts the number of hours worked, not the student, or the clinical supervisor (for the additional placement).
Students have the possibility of validating a maximum of 24 hours of placement in external training according to the following conditions:
- The training must be specifically in speech & language therapy and linked to the theme of the placement, and validated by the academic work placement supervisor;
- The number of indicated placement hours must be strictly respected;
- Students must inform their work placement mentor of any training they wish to do and validate as placement hours.
- A paper certifying the student's presence at the training must be given to the work placement mentor and to the supervisor, and attached to the placement report;
- A critical report of the training (3 pages maximum, including a description of the training - theme, those involved, place - a rapid summary and a critical analysis) must be given to the work placement mentor and to the supervisor, and then be made available to the other students via e-Campus.
Internship support seminar
Intership
Mandatory attendance.
Work is required on student absence, even under medical certificate. This work will depend on the content of the seminar in which the student was absent. In addition, the student who would be absent once without justification will remove 2 points from its score of SAS. The student who would be absent more than once without cause will get a failing grade.
Recommended or required readings
Assessment methods and criteria
June session :
- In-person
written exam
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
August-september session :
- In-person
written exam
- Remote
written work
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
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Internship
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
The assessment will be carried out according to the placement assessment grid based on the skills system of reference. Students must download two copies of the grid from e-Campus and hand it in to the work placement mentor.
Halfway through the placement, there is a three-stage formative assessment:
1) Self-assessment by the student, who assesses what point they have reached in their development for each of the five skills in the reference system (argued assessment of their development and the level they think they have achieved);
2) Assessment of the student by the work placement mentor according to the same criteria;
3) Meeting between the student and the work placement mentor so that they can compare opinions and readjust the placement objectives (or set new ones).
At the end of the placement, there is a formative assessment (certificate-based for the teaching team). The formative assessment takes place halfway through the assessment. The student then sends the assessment grid, duly completed by both the student and the work placement mentor, to the teaching team at ULg (students must attach the grid to their placement report). The mentor will also provide a qualitative assessment of the placement (excellent, very good, good, fair, etc.). The assessment made at the site of the placement will be converted into a mark by the teaching team.
The final mark for the placement is based on (1) the placement supervisor's assessment and (2) the placement notebook completed by the student and evaluated by the teaching team, as well as (3) an oral defense of the student, in front of the teaching team, on the content of his internship notebook. The assessment criteria for the placement and the placement notebook are sent to the student before the placement. Students must pass each of these parts to obtain an overall pass for the placement. If this is the case, the final mark for the placement will be divided as follows: 50% for the placement supervisor's assessment and 50% for the placement notebook/oral defense. If the student fails one of the parts, the final mark for the placement will be the mark of the failed part.
Note regarding spelling: command of the French language is one of the basic competences in order to work as a speech & language therapist. As such, if the documents (written work or placement report) contain more than 10 spelling mistakes (use and/or agreements) in the first exam session, they will be given a fail (5/20) and will have to be handed in again during the second exam session. If the documents handed in during the second session contain more than 10 spelling mistakes, two points will be deducted from the final mark for the placement.
Remark concerning the placement notebook:
Students must respect the deadline for the regular updating of the placement notebook. Students are expected to submit a minimum number of proofs in the logbook at the end of the course. The number is determined by the teaching team and will be communicated to the trainees at the beginning of the course. A significant discrepancy between the number of proofs expected and the number of proofs provided will result in a failing grade.
Internship support seminar
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
The assessment is based on the quality of
1) The presentation of the complex situation encountered in the intership;
2) Participation in group discussions ;
3) The reflection on the contribution of SAS in skills development (clinical and / or transversals) of the student and its objectives for the intership and the seminar during Master 2.
The Seminar is related to the internship. Therefore, the student who fails the intership and follows the intership again the next year will also follows a new cycle of SAS in parallel.
Work placement(s)
Internship support seminar
Internship places allocated by the University teaching staff.
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Internship
Obligations concerning the placement:
- Students must respect the ethical and deontological principles of speech & language therapy, both with regard to the patients entrusted to them and the team receiving them.
- They may not do their placement with a work placement mentor whom they know personally (member of the family, friend, etc.) and who may subsequently fail to be impartial as regards the student's assessment.
- It is compulsory to do the 360 hours of the placement. In case of absence, even justified by a medical certificate, the hours not worked will not be counted by the work placement mentor or the clinical supervisor.
- Before the beginning of the year, and before starting the placements, students must complete and hand in the following documents to the department in question: the agreements for the main placement and for the additional placement, to be handed into the 'Apparitorat' (documents required in order to be covered by the university's insurance) and the agreements to be handed into the 'Logopédie Clinique' department (specifying the role of the student and that of their work placement mentor).
Internship support seminar
- The rules for Intership of the Faculty applies.
- Before beginning the internship, students must complete and turn in to the service the internship agreements and service agreement (setting forth the duties of the intern and his/her tutor).
- Students shall adhere to the code of ethics of speech therapy, with regard to patients they are allowed to observe or treat, and with regard to the team of which they will be a part.
Contacts
Internship
Prof. Christelle Maillart
christelle.maillart@ULiege.be
Coordinator
Malika Dupont
malika.dupont@gmail.com
Internship support seminar
Pr. Christelle Maillart
Christelle.Maillart@Uliege.be
Malika Dupont: malika.dupont@gmail.com
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Internship
Items online
Items online are available on e-campus