- Docente: Valentina Turroni
- 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
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
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