Non-oral Communication Means I

General Knowledge about the importance of communication and some pathologies related to communication difficilties.

Expository, demonstrative and active group teaching. Vídeos will be discussed and analysed, role-play will be
experimented. Aumentative and alternative communication means will also be explored The participation in class
activities will be recognized as though group work and apresentation . Written evaluation on the program contents.

– To improve comunication skills with people whith some communication difficulties;
– To know and to characterize several ways of human communication;
– To improve verbal and non-verbal communication and to familiraze students with supportive technology to
smooth communication difficulties;
– To be aware to the specificity of communication disabilities in disable people and in gerontology;
– To identify people with communications issues and to understand their difficulties;
– To know non-oral ́means of communication and facilitating strategies to an effective communication.

– Presentation of the curricular unnit and definition of dates and methodology of evaluation -2h
– Basic notions of human communication, language and talk -4h
– Non-verbal communication: functions and characteristics -3h
– Alternative and aumentative communication: history and general concepts -3h
– Funtion and classification of Systems of Alternative and aumentative communication -3h
– Support technologies to communication -3h
– Language compounds affected in multi-disabled people -4h
– Kinds of users and utilization criteria -4h
– The role of the interluctor: conversation skills -3h
– Normal vs pathologic aging: communication, language and speech in gerontology – 3h
– Most frequent pathologies in communication, language and adult speech: afasia, dysarthria and dyspraxia – 3h
– Importance of evaluation: diferential diagnosis -3h
– Strategies to make communication easier – 3h
– Augmentative and alternative means of communication -2h

– Written Evaluation – 2h

NAO

Prioritária:

– Alves, A. M. (2003). A importância da comunicação no cuidar do Idoso (master´s thesis). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas de Abel Salazar, Porto

– ASHA. (2020). Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Retrieved from https://asha.org/public/speech/disorders/aac/

-Almeida, P. M. (2015). A comunicação Alternativa e Aumentativa, com alunos com Paralisia Cerebral: conceções dos Professores dos 2º e 3º Ciclos do Ensino Básico dos Açores (master´s thesis). Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto.

– Nascimento, S. (2011). Comunicação Aumentativa e alternativa: o caderno de comunicação (master´s thesis). Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro

– Pereira, J. M. (2016). A comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa enquanto fator de inclusão de alunos com necessidades educativas especiais (master´s thesis). Escola Superior de Educação João de Deus, Porto.

– Rosa, B. M. (2017). De mãos abertas: reflexos da Língua Gestual na vida de uma jovem com Trissomia 21 (master´s thesis). Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Beja 

– Santos, P., Heidemann, I., Marçal, C., & Arakawa-Belaunde, A. (2019). The perception of the elderly about communication in the aging process. Audiology Communication Research, 24:e2058. ISSN 2317-6431

Recomendada:

– Beukelman, D. (2000). Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Adults with Acquired Neurologic Disorders.
Baltimore: Oaul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
– DOWNING, J. (1999). Teaching Communication Skills to students with Severe Disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes
Publishing Co.
– GLENNEN, S. (1997). Handbook of Augmentative and Alternative Communication. London: Singular Publishing G.
– MARTINS, M. (1994). Para uma Gramática da Língua Gestual Portuguesa. Lisboa: Ed.Caminho

– PEÑA-CASANOVA, J. (2001). Manual de Logopedia. Barcelona: Ed. Masson – 3ª ed.
– PIRES, J. (1998). Profundis Valsas Lentas. Dom Quixote
– SACKS, O. (1985).  O Homem que Confundiu a Mulher com um Chapéu. Relogio d`Agua
– SACKS, O. (2011). Vejo uma Voz: Uma Viagem ao Mundo dos Surdos. Relógio d`Agua
– TETZCHNER, S. (2000). Introdução à Comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa. Porto: Porto Ed.