Applied Speech Pathology Sciences: Propaedeutics

VOCOLOGY
The neural basis of phonation
The evaluation of the item
Laryngostroboscopy
Acoustic analysis (phonography, spectrography and signal perturbation indices)
Perceptual assessment
Aerodynamic assessment
Self assessment
The diseases that cause dysphonia (definition, epidemiology, anatomical-pathological changes, ethiopathogenesis, diagnostic criteria, therapy)
Medical and surgical therapy of dysphonias
SWALLOWING
Physiology of child, adult and senile swallowing
Neurophysiology of infant, adult and senile swallowing
Pathophysiology of swallowing
Diagnostic techniques (VFS, FEES, EMG, Scintigraphy, manometry, pH-impedance measurement, EGDS)
The main assessment scales in swallowing (DOSS, PAS, PS, SWAL-QOL, EAT-10)
The diseases that cause dysphagia in childhood, adulthood and senile age
The complications of dysphagia
Dysphagia patient management
Surgical treatment of dysphagia
ARTICULATORY DISORDERS
The neural basis of the joint
Fluency disorders (definition, epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, classification, diagnostic criteria, clinical features, therapy)
Dysarthria (definition, epidemiology, ethiopathogenesis, classification, diagnostic criteria, clinical features, therapy)
Peripheral mechanical dyslalia (definition, epidemiology, ethiopathogenesis, classification, diagnostic criteria, clinical features, therapy)
Speech Sound Disorders (definition, epidemiology, ethiopathogenesis, classification, diagnostic criteria, clinical features, therapy)

Notions of general comunicology
Communication models
Communication biology
The neural basis of communication
The development of communication
The acoustic spectrum
The acoustic phonetics of the Italian language
Articulatory phonetics
Perceptual phonetics
The development of phonetics

Speech therapy intervention: clinical interview, evaluation, speech therapy budget and counseling
Difference between diagnosis and evaluation
Difference between rehabilitation program and rehabilitation project
Evaluation according to regulatory and economic paradigm
Differences between interview, questionnaire and interview
Observation as an evaluation tool
Choice of test papers for a communication disorder for evaluation
Trace the linguistic-communicative profile
Define a speech therapy analysis
Define the indications to plan the rehabilitation intervention

The history, evolution and main normative references of the profession of speech therapist and Health Professions.
The distinctive characteristics of the healthcare profession (sociological approach)
The non-medical health professions: legal definition and characteristics of the evolutionary path of the health professions.
History of speech therapy in Italy and history of speech therapy in the Health System.
Speech Therapy in Europe and CPLOL (Permanent Coordination of European Speech Therapists).
The Professional Profile of the Speech Therapist: D.M. 742 of 14 September 1994.
The Code of Ethics of the Speech Therapist: approved by the Italian Speech Therapists Federation (Rome) on February 13, 1999. Subsequent modifications and additions.
Ethical behavior in professional practice.
The core competence, the core curriculum and the core values of the speech therapist.
Autonomy, competence and responsibility of the speech therapist.
Roles and competences of the professional figures of rehabilitation.
The interdisciplinary team: composition, skills and collaboration in the rehabilitation field.
Continuing education in medicine: the ECM system (outline).
Health, disease and disability: definition of concepts in relation to International Classifications (ICD, ICIDH, ICF).
ICD: International Classification of Dideases (1970).
Notes on ICIDH: International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps (1980).
The bio-psycho-social model according to the ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (2001).
Evidence Based Practice: definition.

. Communication:
1.1 Definition
1.2 The development of communicative behavior
1.3 Human Communication
2. The components of the communication act
2.1 What and how we communicate
2.2 The communication act as an interaction process
2.3 The components of the communication act
2.4 The verbal and non-verbal communication act
2.5 Theories of communication:
2.6 The peripheral instruments
3. The main forms of communication:
3.1 Verbal or linguistic communication: oral, written communication of signs
3.2 Non-verbal communication: body, music, art, theater, dance, multimedia, graphic-advertising communication
4. The Augmentative Alternative Communication:
4.1 Definition
4.2 History
4.3 Principles and objectives
4.4 The prerequisites for the intervention
5 The tools for the AC:
5.1 Description of the main systems: the Bliss method, graphic systems: PCS, PIC, PICSYM, CORE, the communication system for images: PECS
5.2 Communication aids: low-tech light-tech aids: tables - etran - operational notebooks - modified books
high-tech high-tech aids: voca - communicators - alphabetic communicators - communication software - communicators with eye control
6. Application of the A.C.
6.1 Application of AAC tools in all communication and language disorders in age: childhood, adult and geriatric