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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Educational Studies |
| Grao en Educación Primaria |
 Subjects |
| Alternative Communication Systems |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Alternative Communication Systems | Code | 652G02037 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Oral presentation of augmentative and alternative communication program contents. |
| 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. |
| Events academic / information | Attendance to programmed scientific-information academic events for this subject is compulsory. Professionals from the assistive technology AAC area are invited to show a selec 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 alternative communication systems, with specifically designed activities for its analysis. Audiovisual documents will be used as a general introduction to different topics of the program. |
| Glossary | Tool for explaining and contextualising terms and concepts in the specific Augmentative and Alternativa Communication Systems domain of knowledge in order to enhance their understanding. |
| Workshop | Practical learning about the specific topic of unaided AAC systems (manual alphabet, manual sign systems, and cued speech) will be carried out by students with the lecturer's assistance and supervision. |
| Collaborative learning | Students will be organized into small groups; groups will work together to solve task assigned by the teacher. Students will be guided either personally or using information and communication technologies. |
| Simulation | Students will be presented with hypothetical situations, similar to those they will encounter as professionals in the educational environment, regarding the aplication of augmentative and alternative communication systems. |
| Objective test | Students must pass an objective test. The objective test consists of a combination of ordering and sequencing questions, short answer questions, and completion questions. |
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