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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Educational Studies |
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 Subjects |
| Augmentative and Alternative Communication |
| Methodologies |
| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Augmentative and Alternative Communication | Code | 652G04022 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Oral presentation of augmentative and alternative communication program contents. |
| Events academic / information | Attendance to programmed scientific academic events for this subject is compulsory. Professionals from the assistive technology AAC area are invited to show a select sample of high-tech assistive communication products, as well as alternative access products and specific technological AAC programs. |
| Document analysis | Use of brief sections of audiovisual documents, relevant to AAC, with specifically designed activities for its analysis. Audiovisual documents will be used as a general introduction to the different topics of the program and also for explaining communicative processes that can not be directly observed, and as a strategy for syntehsising theorical and practical content. |
| Glossary | Tool for explaining and contextualising terms and concepts in the specific Augmentative and Alternative Communication domain of knowledge in order to enhance its understanding. |
| Simulation | Students will be presented with a hypothetical set of circumstances, similar to those of real augmentative and alternative communication intervention context. The aim of this strategy is twofold: to engage students in learning experiences, and for assessment purposes. |
| Workshop | Practical learning about the specific topic of unaided AAC systems (manual alphabet, manual sign system, cued speech) will be carried out by students with the lecturer's assistance and supervision. |
| Collaborative learning | Students will be organized into small groups; they will work together to solve tasks assigned by the teacher. They will be guided either personally or using information and communication technologies. |
| Objective test | Students must pass an objective test. The objective test consists of a combination of ordering and sequencing questions, association, short answer and completion questions. |
| Supervised projects | Small working groups will hand out the teacher, in due time, all duly identified materials that are the product of procedural learning activities carried out during the interactive lessons. |
| Practical test: | The students are to carry out practical procedures previously tried out in the unaided AAC systems practical classes; namely, a practical test focused on the manual alphabet, the manual sign system and cued speech. |
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