Bachelor's degree in Speech and Language Therapy (to qualify as a speech and language therapist)

Current year courses

Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and speech therapy evaluation methodology (2012/2013)

Course code: 4S000173
Credits: 9
Coordinator: Patrizia Colognato

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Teaching is organised as follows:
Unit	Credits	Academic sector	Period	Academic staff
GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA	3	L-LIN/01-HISTORICAL AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS	LEZIONI 1^ ANNO 2^ SEMESTRE	Chiara Melloni
METODOLOGIA DI VALUTAZIONE LOGOPEDICA	2	MED/50-APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY	LEZIONI 1^ ANNO 2^ SEMESTRE	Patrizia Colognato
PSICOLINGUISTICA	2	M-PSI/01-GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY	LEZIONI 1^ ANNO 2^ SEMESTRE	Alessandra Galmonte
LOGOPEDIA GENERALE	2	MED/50-APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY	LEZIONI 1^ ANNO 2^ SEMESTRE	Sara Isoli

Learning outcomes

Module: GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA
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Module: PSICOLINGUISTICA
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The course is aimed to provide students with basic knowledge about Psycholinguistics, by presenting the functioning of language and cognitive processes that support it, by examining learning, comprehension, speech and reading.
Starting with an introductory analysis of the historical reasons that led Psycholinguistics to become as it is, the course will then focus on main theories and researches in the field, from a viewpoint centered on language processing, acquisition and production of language, its main properties and disorders.

Module: LOGOPEDIA GENERALE
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Module: METODOLOGIA DI VALUTAZIONE LOGOPEDICA
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Syllabus

Module: GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA
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Module: PSICOLINGUISTICA
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The course will present the main theories and experimental researches that in the last decades tried to explain the role of language within the communication systems, and the different types of communicative languages, the origins and the development of language in both non human and human animals, its acquisition, the relationship among language and the other cognitive processes, like perception, memory, and thought, the way in which it is understood and used in reading and writing, the neural bases, the main disorders.

Module: LOGOPEDIA GENERALE
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Module: METODOLOGIA DI VALUTAZIONE LOGOPEDICA
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Assessment methods and criteria

Module: GLOTTOLOGIA E LINGUISTICA
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Module: PSICOLINGUISTICA
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In the dedicated web page lessons slides will be available to students. The exam consists in a written multiple choice test. Students interested in studying in more detail a specific topic can write a short dissertation to supplement the written exam mark. The argument should be proposed via e-mail and the dissertation should be presented at least two weeks before the examination session.

Module: LOGOPEDIA GENERALE
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Module: METODOLOGIA DI VALUTAZIONE LOGOPEDICA
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Reference books
Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Note
Harris M., Coltheart M.	L’elaborazione del linguaggio nei bambini e negli adulti	Mulino	2003	978-88-15-09338-7	testo principale
S. AGLIOTI, F. FABBRO	Neuropsicologia del linguaggio	Il Mulino: Bologna	2006	8815106820
C. CACCIARI	Psicologia del linguaggio	Il Mulino: Bologna	2011	8815110402