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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 | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | Virtual presentation of augmentative and alternative communication program contents for each of the topics. |
| Supervised projects | Students organized in small working groups will hand out the teacher all the required materials that are the product of procedural learning activities: communication boards and overlays, PECS book, aided technology catalogue, literacy learning materials, adaptive didactic unit, and assessment materials and materials for successful participation at school of students with special needs. Supervised projects compute in the evaluation. |
| Events academic / information | Attendance to programmed scientific-information academic events for this subject is compulsory. A professional from the assistive technology AAC area is invited to virtually show AAC software. |
| 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 | The students' learning will be evaluated continuously. Students, throughout the course, will have to pass objective tests of the contents (of part of the topics or of the whole topics). Objective tests will consist of true-false, multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Tests will be taken through Moodle. |
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