72187 - Afasia after Stroke. Relational Strategies

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • 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 knows:-The theoretical bases and the clinical practice necessary to treat aphasia patients who have suffered a stroke; -Cognitive processing of oral production (from meaning to phonological sequencing); -The main deficits that commits the aphasia patient; -Standardized clinical evaluation of communicative-linguistic functions; -Three main therapeutic approaches (syndrome, cognitive, social). It is also able to:-Perform communicative-linguistic framing in the patient with aphasia; -Plan for specific rehabilitation treatment; -Identify the most appropriate alternative increase communication tool.

Course contents

Course contents

1°Definition aphasia/Patient aphasia-Classification Aphasia-theoretical reference categories of rehabilitative methods.

2° Aphasia guidelines-cognitive processing of the production of words-the mechanisms of the semantic/lexical system and those of Sublexical conversion

3 °Communication-the relational strategies-the rehabilitation Treatment logopaedic

4 ° Rehabilitation treatment Logopaedic-practical exercises-discussions clinical cases

Readings/Bibliography

  • Basso A. The aphasia person – rehabilitation, a. It. A. Federation of Italian Aphasia Associations;
  • Flosi C., Consolmagno P., Rossetto T. "The rehabilitation of the aphasia person" Carocci Faber(2013)
  • Mazzucchi A."Neuropsychological Rehabilitation", Masson Ed, 1999
  • Scarpa M.P. “"Practical advice for the assistance of the aphasia patient", in the Journal of the Nurse; Scientific thought and.”, Ed.
  • Teaching methods

    Lectures on the contents of the didactic program, practical exercises and role playing.

    Assessment methods

    Trial and oral final exam.

    Teaching tools

    Clinical cases and movies. .

    Office hours

    See the website of Valentina Turroni