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SLT-20019 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2026/27 Last Updated: 17 March 2026

SLT-20019 - Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics
Coordinator: Maxine Winstanley
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office:

Programme/Approved Electives for 2026/27

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2026/27

This module builds on the topics covered in Year 1, allowing you to consider the application of your previously acquired linguistic and phonetics knowledge to clinical data. The skills developed in this module will enable you to conduct accurate linguistic analysis of service users’ speech and language in order to inform management planning.

Aims
This module aims to provide apprentices 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 apprentices with the opportunity to gain knowledge of narrative development and the skills to analyse both the micro and macro structure of a narrative.
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

Conduct syntactic profiling of clinical language data to identify specific areas of syntactic strength and weaknesses.: 1
Discern and coherently articulate, for a multi-disciplinary team, the grammatical strengths and weaknesses of a spoken narrative.
: 1
Analyse current approaches to intervention which aim to improve understanding and use of grammar.: 1

Study hours

30 hours tutor led active learning will include:
~ 10 hours synchronous interactive lectures
~10 hours asynchronous lectures
~ 8 hours synchronous workshops
~ 2 hours synchronous assessment preparation
120 hours of independent study will include:
~ 50 hours independent assessment preparation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 100%
Assignment
Apprentices complete a linguistic analysis of a narrative, along with an interpretation of the linguistic information and an analysis of current intervention methods - 2500 words

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Last Updated: 17 March 2026