Intership on disability and inclusion

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The placement concerning the specialisation in inclusion 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.

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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.

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see study programme

Internship support seminar

YSTG9028-2

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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.

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Face-to-face course


Further information:

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

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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.

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Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Further information:

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person



Written work / report

Continuous assessment

Additional information:

The final placement grade is based on three main components: (1) the assessment by the placement supervisor; (2) an oral presentation of the e-portfolio (Karuta) before the teaching team; and (3) the grade obtained in the SAS sessions (see the relevant pedagogical requirements).

The assessment criteria for the placement and the oral presentation are communicated to students before the placement. Students must obtain a passing grade for each of these three components in order to obtain a passing final placement grade. When all three components are passed, the final grade is weighted as follows: 50% for the placement supervisor's assessment and 50% for the oral presentation. The resulting grade is then adjusted upwards or downwards according to the grade obtained in the SAS sessions (see the pedagogical requirements for YSTG9028-B for further details). If one of the three components is failed, the final placement grade corresponds to the grade obtained for the failed component.

(1) Regarding the placement supervisor's assessment: a grade out of 20 is awarded following a discussion between the placement coordinator and the placement supervisor. This grade is based on the end-of-placement assessment grid, which is completed and discussed with the placement supervisor.

(2) Regarding the oral presentation : the oral presentation lasts 30 minutes. It consists of a presentation of two clinical decisions integrating the four pillars of EBP, followed by a question-and-answer session aimed at exploring and justifying the choices presented and the elements included in the e-portfolio. A grade out of 20 is awarded in accordance with the criteria set out in the assessment grid, which is presented and provided to students during the academic year.

(3) Regarding the SAS sessions: see the pedagogical requirements relating to the SAS sessions (YSTG9028-B).

Note regarding spelling: Proficiency in French is considered a core professional skill for the practice of speech and language therapy. Accordingly, if the final version of the e-portfolio, submitted by the deadline specified at the beginning of the placement, contains more than 5 spelling errors (usage and/or agreement), it will receive a failing grade (5/20) in the first examination session and must be resubmitted in the second examination session. If the e-portfolio submitted in the second examination session still contains more than 5 spelling errors, 2 points will be deducted from the final grade awarded for this component (/20).

Note regarding the e-portfolio (Karuta): Students are expected to comply with the requirement to update their e-portfolio regularly, at least once a week throughout the placement. The teaching team reserves the right to deduct 2 points from the final grade in the event of failure to comply with this requirement. Students are expected to have uploaded at least 30 pieces of evidence to their e-portfolio by the end of the placement. The submission of these 30 pieces of evidence is a condition for passing the oral presentation. Failure to meet this requirement will result in a failing grade for the oral presentation.

Note regarding the second examination session: If the placement is validated by the placement supervisor but the student fails the oral presentation, a second examination session will be organised. This second session is intended to enable the student to reflect critically on their clinical reasoning, take into account the feedback received during the first examination session, and demonstrate how their thinking has evolved.

The student will be required to:

• review and further develop their e-portfolio (Karuta), taking into account the feedback received;
• submit, in the administrative section of the e-portfolio, a written report of no more than 3 pages containing: (1) an analysis of the difficulties encountered during the first examination session and identification of the factors that contributed to the failing result; (2) the definition of two or three personal development objectives and a description of the means implemented to achieve them; and (3) a detailed presentation of the clinical reasoning underlying two selected clinical decisions, explicitly explaining how the four pillars of EBP were integrated.

Internship support seminar

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment


Further information:

The assessment is based on the quality of
1)the presentation of the ethical and deontological clinical case

2) The presentation of the complex situation encountered in the intership;
3) Participation in group discussions ;
4) 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.

Internship support seminar

Internship places allocated by the University teaching staff.

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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).

No second examination session is organised in the event of a failing assessment by the placement supervisor during the first examination session. In this case, the student will receive a failing grade in both the first and second examination sessions and will be required to repeat the placement during the following academic year.

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.
 

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Prof. Christelle Maillart
christelle.maillart@ULiege.be

Coordinator

 

Edith El Kouba

edith.elkouba@uliege.be

Internship support seminar

Pr. Christelle Maillart
Christelle.Maillart@Uliege.be


Edith El Kouba: edith.elkouba@uliege.be

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