- Docente: Annio Posar
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/39
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student has acquired a knowledge of normal development of language, language disorders, and specific and nonspecific learning disorders.
Course contents
Program:
1) Notions on the psychomotor development in the first years of life, including notes on the anatomical and functional organization of the central nervous system.
2) Normal language development in the first years of life.
3) Theories concerning the acquisition of language. The development of language functions.
4) Language disorders:
- -- classifications
- -- articulation disorder
- -- secondary disorders due to hearing deficits, intellectual disability, psychiatric disorders, social and environmental deficits
- -- specific or primary disorders of language.
5) Evaluation criteria of language development.
6) The treatment of the child with language disorder.
7) Specific learning disabilities, in particular reading and writing disorders.
Readings/Bibliography
1) In Maurizio De Negri: Neuropsicopatologia dello
sviluppo, Piccin-Nuova Libraria Editore, 1999, Maurizio
De Negri in collaborazione con Silvia Tortorelli: "Sviluppo e
patologia della funzione verbale", pp. 109-122.
2) In Glauco Mastrangelo, Manuale di
Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Evolutiva, Il Pensiero
Scientifico Editore, 1993, Anna Maria Chilosi, Paola Cipriani: "I
disturbi del linguaggio", pp. 561-592.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral examination, designed to assess
the achievement of the following learning objectives:
knowledge of the
normal and pathological development of language;
knowledge of the
main language disorders and related diagnostic tools;
knowledge of the
learning disorders and related diagnostic tools;
knowledge of some
general concepts concerning the speech therapy.
Teaching tools
PowerPoint presentation.
Office hours
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