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

Areas of intervention and professionals with whom the speech therapist collaborates
· Diagnostic assessment and evaluation in speech therapy practice
· Quantitative versus descriptive assessment: speech therapy evaluation according to nosographic
and economic paradigm
· Interview, observation, tests in speech therapy
The role of the interview and questionnaires in the clinical speech therapy practice
Speech therapy interview: phases, subjects, content and setting
Organization, contexts, observers in different type of clinical observation
Tests: forms and goals
· The speech therapy assessment: basics and working protocol
· Evidence Based Medicine and Speech Therapy
· Rehabilitation management: rehabilitation project and program
· Speech therapy rehabilitation intervention: criteria and planning methods
· Counselling and communication management in the clinical interview and in the speech therapy
rehabilitation process
· Prevention and therapeutic education in speech therapy

The non-medical health professions: legal definition and distinctive characteristics of the evolutionary path of the health professions.
The history, evolution and main normative references of the profession of speech therapist and Health Professions in Italy. Professional orders: TSRM-PSTRP
Speech Therapy in Europe: European Speech and Language Therapy Association (ESLA).
The Professional Profile of the Speech Therapist.
Nosological catalogue of the Speech Therapist.
The Code of Ethics of the Speech Therapist.
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.
Health, disease, disability and functioning: definition of concepts in relation to International Classifications (ICD, ICF, DSM).

. 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