Developmental Communicology

Module TECHNICAL APPLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES

The course has the objective to acquire the skills and competences to define a linguistic profile and a rehabilitation path in reference to the current theoretical and practical guidelines and related guidelines, specifically:

1.      to make the students know and acquire the skills, characteristics, insurgency, assessment tools and specific rehabilitation techniques for disorders of oral communication in the developmental age
2.      to make known and acquire the specific skills of classification, classification, assessment and enabling and rehabilitative strategies in communication disorders related to childhood deafness
3.      to make known and acquire the theoretical bases for the study, observation, evaluation and rehabilitative treatment of verbal fluency through specific technical skills and basic principles of functions related to fluency in preschool and school age and relative study of the characteristics fundamental principles of the main and current guidelines

Lectures with the aid of power point presentations and exercises on clinical cases.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes with respect to what was previously stated may be introduced, in order to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

Knowledge:

- verbal and extra-verbal prerequisites

 - of the specific stages of the typical development of language in its formal and functional aspects

 - the development of the phono-articulatory system

 - anatomical and physiological of the auditory system

• Definition and classification of Language and Communication Specific Disorders in developmental age: classification of the pathology, assessment tools and tests, specific rehabilitation techniques
•  Classification, etiopathogenesis, evaluation and speech therapy in developmental language disorders associated with genetic, congenital and acquired syndromes;
• The late talker, the phonological disorder and the verbal dysplasia: clinical classification, definition, evaluation and rehabilitation techniques
• developmental language disorders associated with congenital and acquired genetic syndromes. classification, classification, evaluation and rehabilitation intervention plan
• The transmissive and neurosensory hypoacusies: classification, evaluation, qualification and speech therapy rehabilitation; the child with a cochlear implant from selection to rehabilitation treatment
• Disfluencies: definition, onset, etiology, evaluation and current rehabilitation guidelines in preschool and school children

1. L. Marotta - Language disorders Ed. Erickson 2014
2. Sabbadini, Vaquer, Michelazzo - Phonological disorder in children with speech disorders Ed. Springer 2004
3. L. Sabbadini - Dyspraxia in the developmental age: evaluation and intervention criteria - Ed. Springer 2005
4. Anchisi and Others - Phonological disorder in children with speech disorders: workbook Ed. Springer 2004
5. L. Sabbadini - The Specific Language Disorder, dyspraxes and executive functions - Ed Springer 2013
6. Caselli, Mariani, Pieretti - Speech therapy in developmental age assessment paths and rehabilitation experiences - Ed Del Cerro – 2003
7. A. De Filippis - The Cochlear implant - Ed. Masson 2002
8. Aimar, Schindler, Vernero - Training of auditory perception in children with cochlear implant Ed. Springer - 2009
9. D. Tomaiuoli - Stuttering: Fundamentals, evaluation and treatment from childhood to adulthood - Ed. Erickson 2015
10. Teaching material in lecture format provided by the teacher

written test: with open questions and multiple choice questions, and oral test.

Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should the conditions require it.