Non-Oral Communication and Portuguese Sign Language

Not applicable

Theoretical-practical classes of expository and dialogical teaching, using audiovisual media. Group work in the classroom. Videos of clinical cases with different types of communication difficulties will be analyzed and discussed, and materials/equipment related to augmentative and alternative communication will be explored.
Practical classes (PL) will have demonstrative and practical teaching, which will allow students to learn to communicate through PSL whenever they need it.

– To improve communication with people with communicative difficulties;
– To know and characterize different forms of communication;
– To know non-oral means of communication and facilitating strategies for effective communication;
– To improve verbal and non-verbal communication and learn about assistive technologies for communication;
– To realize the specificity of communication in multideficiency and aging;
– To acquire knowledge about deafness and Portuguese Sign Language (PSL);
– To acquire basic skills that allow understanding and using PSL;
– To acquire skills to deal effectively with the deaf person.

Presentation of the curricular unit and definition of dates and evaluation methodologies – 2h
Understanding human communication, language, language and speech – 4h
Characterization of Language vs Language – 3h
Function and characterization of nonverbal Communication – 3h
Classification and function of Augmentative and Alternative communication systems – 6h
Different types of assistive technologies for communication – 6h
Type of users and communication criteria (most frequent communication pathologies) – 6h
Aging and communication – 3h
Facilitating strategies for communication – 4h

The Cochlear Implant and the deaf construct – 3h

Historical-social contextualization of sign language – 4h
Origin of Portuguese Sign Language and other visual languages – 5h
Deaf Culture and Identity – 6h

PSL as a means of verbal communication – 15h
– Basic principles of linguistic organization of LGP
– Daily vocabulary and simple communication strategies
– Vocabulary applied to audiology

Presentation of group work – 3h

written assessment – 2h

Continuous evaluation:
- T/P assessment = 60% written frequency + 40% work in classroom (with a minimum score of 9.5 in each assessment);
- Evaluation PL = 35% in the final grade, whose classification must be at least 9.5).

Exam evaluation: 65% T/P component + 35% practical component  (whose classification must be at least 9.5).

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