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72188 - Reahabilitation of Acquired Deficit in Patient with Severe Head Trauma

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Cristina Santellocco
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/50
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students will have learnt:

  • basic knowledge and general principles on rehabilitation
  • evaluation scales 
  • treatment of dysphagia 
  • treatment of cognitive-behavioral disorder and communicative-language disorders 

Students will also have acquired the competence of:

  • assessing the cognitive-behavioral situation of the patient 
  • making the evaluation of the morpho dynamic swallowing process 
  • planning the rehabilitation process for both dysphagia and cognitive comunicative language deficit detected in the various rehabilitation phases (acute-subacute-chronic)
  • discussing about the clinic cases concerning the patients exposed to standardized testing for cognitive-comunicative-language functions.

Course contents

The teaching will be articulated in 2 lessons of 6 hours each, for a total of 12 hours (1 cfu).

The program will deal with all areas of interest for the Speech Therapist who is taking care for the patient with serious TCE, from his entrance to the rehabilitation department, the "outpatient care" phase, until his dismissal.

Therefore, the rehabilitation of dysphagia, of dysarthria and of language will be covered, and dealt in a teamwork perspective. The program will be adapted to meet the students' needs considering the knowledge they have already acquired. The program does not only supply theoretical basis, but also useful means for daily practice of rehabilitation. Lectures will be combined with hours of practical exercise and with discussions of clinical cases (video)

Readings/Bibliography

  1. "La riabilitazione neuropsicologica" (di Mazzucchi);
  2. "Conoscere e rieducare l'afasia" (Anna Basso)
  3. " Le disartrie. Diagnosi e trattamento" (Donald B. Freed)
  4. "Deglutologia" (Schindler O., Ruoppolo, Schindler A.)
  5. "Tracheostomia e disfagia nel grave cerebroleso. Scegliere, valutare e riabilitare" (Cristina Reverberi e Francesco Lombardi)

    1. "La riabilitazione neuropsicologica" (di Mazzucchi);
    2. "Conoscere e rieducare l'afasia" (Anna Basso)
    3. " Le disartrie. Diagnosi e trattamento" (Donald B. Freed)
    4. "Deglutologia" (Schindler O., Ruoppolo, Schindler A.)
    5. "Tracheostomia e disfagia nel grave cerebroleso. Scegliere, valutare e riabilitare" (Cristina Reverberi e Francesco Lombardi)
    La riabilitazione neuropsicologica" (di Mazzucchi);
  • "Conoscere e rieducare l'afasia" (Anna Basso)
  • " Le disartrie. Diagnosi e trattamento" (Donald B. Freed)
  • "Deglutologia" (Schindler O., Ruoppolo, Schindler A.)
  • "Tracheostomia e disfagia nel grave cerebroleso. Scegliere, valutare e riabilitare" (Cristina Reverberi e Francesco Lombardi)
  • "La riabilitazione neuropsicologica" (di Mazzucchi);
  • "Conoscere e rieducare l'afasia" (Anna Basso)
  • " Le disartrie. Diagnosi e trattamento" (Donald B. Freed)
  • "Deglutologia" (Schindler O., Ruoppolo, Schindler A.)
  • "Tracheostomia e disfagia nel grave cerebroleso. Scegliere, valutare e riabilitare" (Cristina Reverberi e Francesco Lombardi)

    • Teaching methods

    • Lectures
    • Practical exercise
    • Observation/discussion of clinical cases
    • Videos
    • Audio recordings

    Assessment methods

    Ongoing observations and tests. Final oral examination.

    Teaching tools

    • Power Point
    • Videos
    • Audio recordings
    • RM TAC imagines.

    Office hours

    See the website of Cristina Santellocco