Key descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems: objects, pictograms, Blissymbolics. Alternative access. Assistive technology.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication is a compulsory subject aimed to endow the future speech and language pathologist with a toolbox kit of language and communication assessment and intervention strategies. Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems may be either objects, pictograms, Blissymbolics, PIC, orthography or manual signs based. Symbols, together with the use of low and high assistive technology options and alternative access are the tools to intervene communicative impairments of people who lack of natural speech to meet their communication needs.
Contingency plan
1. Modifications to the contents
There will be no changes in this subject’s contents.
2. Methodologies
*Teaching methodologies that are maintained
- Guest lecture/Keynote speech: it will be taught virtually.
- Objective test: Continuous and virtual assessment will be maintained.
- Events / academic information: Academic events will continue to be lectured online.
*Teaching methodologies that are modified
In case of confinement:
- Workshops: Unaided alternative communication systems will be practiced online. Learning will be supervised online too (small groups).
- Collaborative learning: The members of the working groups will collaborate online to carry out the assigned tasks.
-Simulations: Practícal cases will be posed and solved online.
3. Mechanisms for personalized attention to students
Teams: a) There will be a weekly virtual session with the large group for the advancement of the theoretical contents and the supervised projects. This weelky meeting will take place in the time slot assigned to the subject in the calendar.
b) There will be two weekly sessions for supervising students in small group (working groups of 3-4 students) for the monitoring and support of their projects.
Mail: Students will use email for brief consultations they may need, or to request virtual meetings in Teams to solve any doubts they may have.
4. Modifications in the evaluation
No changes will be made. The criteria established in the teaching guide will be maintained, for full-time students, for students with recognition of part-time dedication, and for students with academic exemption from attendance exemption.
*Evaluation observations:
Therefore, THE REQUIREMENTS TO OVERCOME THE SUBJECT FOR ALL STUDENTS, whatever their dedication, are the following: to pass the objective test and to pass the practical test -it is essential to pass both tests with a qualification of 5 - and to deliver the supervised projects on the indicated dates.
The July opportunity will be subject to the same criteria as the January opportunity.
5. Modifications to the bibliography or webgraphy
No changes will be made.
Students will have all the materials digitized in Moodle at the beginning of each topic or block of contents. In addition, they will have access to all the websites needed to prepare their supervised projects.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.
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