Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Educational Studies |
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Subjects |
Augmentative and Alternative Communication |
Methodologies |
Identifying Data | 2021/22 | |||||||||||||
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 | Virtual presentation of augmentative and alternative communication program contents. |
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 throughout the course different objective tests for continous assessment. The objective tests consist of a combination of true-false, multiple choice and short answer questions. |
Supervised projects | Small working groups will hand out the teacher, in due time, all duly identified, those materials that are the product of procedural learning activities carried out during the interactive lessons. |
Events academic / information | Students will virtually attend an event in order to learn how to operate specific augmentative and alternative software. |
Practical test: | The students must pass a practical test about practical contents regarding unaided AAC systems; namely, a practical test focused on the manual alphabet, the manual sign system and cued speech. |
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