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SLT-20001 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

SLT-20001 - Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
Coordinator: Maxine Winstanley
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
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Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

Speech and Language Therapists need to be able to carry out an accurate linguistic analysis of service users’ speech and language in order to inform management planning. This module builds on the topics covered in the articulatory phonetics, phonology and linguistics module in year 1 allowing you to consider the application of this knowledge to clinical data from both children and adults.

Aims
This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to gather a language sample and systematically evaluate it. A range of quantitative lexico-grammatical measures will be considered. Additionally, the module aims to provide students with the opportunity to gain knowledge of narrative development and the skills to analyse both the micro and macros structure of narratives.
This module also aims to provide students with the opportunity to gain the skills to describe and accurately transcribe clinical speech data.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate accurate phonetic transcription of disordered speech: 1
Conduct syntactic profiling of clinical language data to identify specific areas of syntactic strength and weaknesses.: 2
Discern and coherently articulate, for a multi-disciplinary team, the grammatical strengths and weaknesses of a spoken narrative.: 2

Study hours

26 tutor led hours includes:
~ 14 hours of lectures
~ 6 hours of workshops
~ 3 hours of clinical video analysis
~ 3 hours of formative assessment group work
~ 94 hours of Independent learning
~ 30 hours assessment study and preparation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Class Test weighted 30%
15 minute in class test
Students complete a timed phonetic transcription of a speech sample.

2: Assignment weighted 70%
1500- word Assignment
Linguistic analysis and summary of a spoken narrative.

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Last Updated: 04 December 2025