Base Knowledge
Not applicable
Teaching Methodologies
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.
Learning Results
– 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.
Program
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
Curricular Unit Teachers
Maria Ines Cardoso AraujoInternship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
AmaraL, M., et al. Para Uma Gramática da Língua Gestual Portuguesa. Lisboa, Caminho, 1994
Correia, I. et al. Língua de Sinais Portuguesa. Estudos Limguísticos de Morfologia e Signwriting, Lisboa, Sítio do livro, 2021
Correia, I., et al. Línguas de Sinais: Cultura, Educação, Identidade. Lisboa, Sítio do Livro, 2019
Downing, J. Teaching Communication Skills to students with Severe Disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, 1999
Faria, I. et al. Introdução à Linguística Geral e Portuguesa. Lisboa, Caminho, 1996
Boesch M. & Fonte, A. Effective Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practices: A Handbook for School-Based
Practitioners New Yourk:. Publisher: Routledge – Taylor Francis Group, 2019
Mateus; M. et al. Gramática da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho, 2004
Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin. Sign Language and Linguistic Universals. Cambridge: University Press, 2006
Tetzchner, S. & Martinsen, H. Introdução à Comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2000
Secondary:
– Amaral, Isabel & Santos, Mónica. 2017. A Língua Gestual Portuguesa no Ensino e na Saúde.
– Amaral, Marta. 2021. Healthcare Interactions with Deaf Patients: Portuguese Sign Language Perspective.
– Martins, João Paulo, & Freitas, Maria José. 2018. Portuguese Sign Language: A Comprehensive Introduction.
– Mendes, Carlos, & Ribeiro, Sofia. 2022. Manual de Língua Gestual Portuguesa para Profissionais de Saúde.
2022
– Oliveira, Miguel. 2015. Língua Gestual Portuguesa: Introdução à Linguagem Gestual.
– Oliveira, Rita. 2019. Teaching Portuguese Sign Language to Healthcare Students: Strategies and Outcomes.
– Quinto-Pozos, David. 2013. Sign Languages in Contact.
– Rocha, Cláudia. 2014. Sign Language Interpreting and the Health Sector in Portugal.
– Silva, Ana Sofia. 2020. Communicating in Portuguese Sign Language: Health Contexts.
– Venade, Filipe. 2016. Linguística da Língua Gestual Portuguesa.