APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNICAL SCIENCES
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The aim of the course is to transmit to the students the necessary knowledge to enable them to make diagnoses, draw up a clinical picture, make a global logopedic assessment and hence plan the rehabilitation programme for some language impairments.
Course contents summary
Classification and the rehabilitation of specific language impairments
Phonological disorders: definition, clinical picture, classification, rehabilitation, analysis of clinical cases.
Specific Language Impairments (SLI):
Definition of SLIs
Classification of SLIs
Etiopathological hypothesis on SLIs
Classification
Theraphy of SLIs: rehabilitation of the different linguistic levels and of associated neuropsychological impairments (attention, memory)
Logopedic rehabilitation during the years of development: Aphasic and dysphasic syndromes
Principles of neurolinguistics
Examination of language
Definition and classification of aphasias
Fluent aphasias
Non-fluent aphasias
Acquired reading disorders
Acquired writing disorders
Acquired calculation disorders
Recommended readings
G.Sabbatini- Manuale di neuropsicologia dell'eta' evolutiva- Ed. Zanichelli
G. Denes, L. Pizzamiglio (a cura di) ? Manuale di Neuropsicologia Zanichelli (II Edizione)
E. Ladavas, A. Berti ? Neuropsicologia. Ed. Il Mulino, 2002 (II Edizione)
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