SPEECH THERAPY AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

TO21C3

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Disciplinary Sector:

Neuropsychiatric and Rehabilitation Nursing

Is part of:

T.O. IN DEVELOPMENTAL AGE

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MONASTERIO MARA

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

basic knowledge of anatomofisiology, neuroanatomofisiology,
developmental psychology

Objectives

provide students with the knowledge they need to relate to people with
communication disabilities and deficits in cognitive processes to increase
their ability to relate.
Expected learning outcomes:
- knowledge of the main communication and language difficulties;
-knowledge of alternative communication methods to ensure proper
communication report; -
knowledge of the main communication difficulties
- language in the evolutionary age; - being able to plan
individual communication paths to ensure proper insertion and recovery
and/or improvement of attentive, perceptive, memorizing, motivational
and emotional dysfunctions responsible for inadequate language
communication and learning skills

Contents

What and what are the cognitive processes and what importance they
have for the development of communicative-linguistic
competence deepen the knowledge of human language as a means of
communication and interaction social work;
the greatest communication-language difficulties in more frequent
pathologies of the evolutionary age and identify the pathways
therapeutics to promote growth of communication skills, with particular
reference the inclusion of these patients in school and the necessary
collaboration with the school to achieve the best results.

Extended Syllabus

1) Cognitive Functions
Which ones are they
2) Executive functions
How important are they in the overall development of the child
Consequences of an altered development of F.C.
3) Human language
Genesis, structure, function
Communicative Pragmatics
4) The stages of language development
5) The development of language in
main pathologies of developmental age
Infantile Cerebral Palsy
- How language develops in the various forms of P.C.I.
- Motor difficulties that negatively affect the communicative - linguistic
ability
- Disorders associated with speech (respiratory, swallowing, food, sensory
deficits)
- Interventions aimed at improving the communicative and social
condition in P.C.I. (early rehabilitation intervention, family assistance,
collaboration with the school and other institutions)
Genetic Syndromes (Down, De George)
How language develops in the various syndromes
Motor difficulties that negatively affect ability
communicative - linguistic
Disorders associated with speech (respiratory, swallowing,
food, sensory, cognitive)
Interventions aimed at improving the communicative condition e
social (early rehabilitation intervention, family assistance,
collaboration with the school and other institutions)
6) Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity
(ADHD
The difficulties of communication and relationship
psychoeducational interventions aimed at improving integration
school
collaboration with the School
7) Specific Learning Disorders
Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysorthography, dyscalculia: evaluation and
habilitation treatment
compensatory / dispensatory measures
The law on DSA
8) Augmentative - Alternative Communication (AAC)
Principles, methods and aims of AAC
The use of AAC with patients with severe communication-linguistic
disabilities.

Recommended Bibliography

Manuals of Anatomofisiology, Neurology, Neuropsychology, Child
Neuropsychiatry and Developmental Psychology already adopted; # S.
Agliotti, F. Fabbro "Neuropsychology of Language" - The Mill
# F. Denes " Talking to the head" - Zanichelli # M. L. Gava
"Communication Alternative increase between thought and thought
word" – F. Angels #
Curated by G. Stella "Dyslexia: clinical, psychological and rehabilitation" -
F. Angels # Teacher's handouts; Notes lessons

Teaching Methods

Lessons fronts with slide presentation; individual and group class tutorials
on topics covered

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Lessons fronts with slide presentation; individual and group class tutorials
on topics covered
L’utilizzo della CAA con i pazienti con gravi disabilità comunicative –
linguistiche.
Sostenibilità Garantire che i discenti acquisiscano la conoscenza e le competenze
necessarie a promuovere lo sviluppo sostenibile, anche tramite un
educazione volta ad uno sviluppo e uno stile di vita sostenibile, ai
diritti umani, alla parità di genere, alla promozione di una cultura
pacifica e non violenta, alla cittadinanza globale e alla
valorizzazione delle diversità culturali e del contributo della
cultura allo sviluppo sostenibile.
Obiettivi per lo sviluppo sostenibile
Codice Descrizione
oral verification with answer 10 questions on the various topics covered;
presentation of two structured processes according to the directions
given to the lesson
Will be also evaluated the ability to refer to experimental evidence
in support of the arguments and the ability to organize the speech in
a clear, effective, critical way, using appropriate scientific language.
Results will get 30/30 points at maximum

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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