Objectives of general skills

• Understand the theoretical and methodological fundamentals in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences to analyse a particular situation involving speech therapy
• Identify and explain the concepts, principles, and models of basic theoretical approaches in psychology, educational sciences and language sciences and their applications
• Identify and describe the biological, medical and socio-cultural foundations of human behaviour
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of psychology, educational sciences and language sciences, and their relationship to other contributory disciplines
• Explain and illustrate, with examples, human functioning, particularly in its pathological dimensions
• Describe the main methodological approaches (goals, methods, techniques and tools) to understand and explain the functioning of individuals and groups
• Provide clear, accurate, and reasoned information
• Write bibliographic references and results of statistical analysis in a standardised way (according to APA standards)
• Act ethically and professionally
• Name, and be familiar with legal frameworks and ethical principles that govern research and practice in speech-language therapy, and implement them in their studies in a well-thought out manner (exams, coursework, etc.)
• Understand the fundamentals related to the scientific approach in psychology, educational sciences and speech therapy
• Identify and describe the specific characteristics of scientific processes
• Identify and describe the different steps to carry out research
• Identify and explain the main methods (including limitations) specific to the scientific process
• Conduct relevant research from scientific literature, from both Francophone and Anglophone references, and select appropriate elements with respect to a particular research topic.
• Give a critique and argue a point of view as part of a scientific approach

UE's Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving to the student the opportunity to be integrated into the process of experiments. He/she is him/herself an actor of experiments as subject, as experimenter or still as observer. The intention is to give to the student, by this integration in real experimental devices, a better appropriation of the concepts and the methods presented in the course. In the longer term, the course aims at giving to the student the methodological rudiments of the scientific method which, in fine, will be to be implement in his final report of the end of studies.

UE Content

The origins of the notion of experiment in human sciences
The scientific information: distribution, location and collection
The phases of the experiment
The determination of the hypotheses 
The selection of the subjects: elementary notions of sampling
Variables
The validity of an experiment and biases
The classic and factorial experimental devices

Prior experience

Not applicable

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination
• Practical test

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination
• Practical Test