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Introduction into Alternative and Augmentative Communication
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:09.11.2022 15:20:28
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | REK_234 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilze Klatenberga | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Rehabilitation | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, rk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 20271291 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 4 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Anatomy, physiology, developmental psychology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Acquire knowledge about alternative and augmentative communication methods and aids, user groups and necessity of AAC interventions. To get basic understanding and skills of usage and adaptation of the various technical aids. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Communication roles and communication needs | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | AAC overview and modern view at the necessity of AAC | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | 1. AAC Process 2. Message Management 3. Symbols and Rate Enhancement | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | 4. Alternative Access 5. Principles of Assessment 6. Assessment of Specific Capabilities | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | 7. Principles of Decision Making Intervention and Evaluation 8. AAC Issues for People with Developmental Disabilities 9. Supporting Participation and Communication for Beginning Communicators | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | 10. Language Development and Intervention 11. Instruction to Support Linguistic and Social Competence 12. Literacy Intervention for Individuals with Complex Communication needs. 13. Educational Inclusion of Students with Complex Communication needs 14. Adults with Acquired Physical Conditions | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | 15. Adults with Severe Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech 16. Adults with Degenerative Cognitive and Linguistic Disorders 17. Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury 18. AAC in Intensive Acute and Long-Term Acute Medical Settings | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Guest lecture "Introduction to AAC" | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual work – literature review. Working drawing up plans for working with children with communication difficulties and its coordination with the teacher. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Active and fruitful participation in lectures and practical classes; • Independent work presentations; • At the end of course exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will be able to define and describe the nature of the AAC system and methods, will be able to describe alternative aids' user groups. Will know and will be able to describe the translation of training methods. Gain knowledge about AAC practical application at work and modern idea of AAC, as well as request for the AAC by various groups of users. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will be able to select the desired alternative system aids in connection with the speech disorder severity and nature. Learn aids operating principles, ways and means to work with people who have communication and interaction difficulties. Will be able to argue necessity of the AAC intervention. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will be able to apply practical communication training systems and methods. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Beukelman, David; Mirenda, Pat; Ball, Laura; et.al. Paul H. Brookes Pub, 2013. Web. | ||||||||
| 2 | www.asha.org/public/speech/.../AAC/ | ||||||||
| 3 | Literacy and Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Martine Smith. Brill, 2003. (izdevums akceptējams) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Augmentative and Alternative Communications Perspectives (grāmatu kopa). Brill, 2012 | ||||||||
| 2 | Shriberg LD, Aram DM, Kwiatkowski J. Developmental Apraxia of Speech: I Descriptive and Theoretical Perspectives. JSLHR, 40, 1997. 273 – 285 | ||||||||
| 3 | Shriberg LD., Aram DM., Kwiatkowski J. Developmental Apraxia of Speech: III. JSLHR, 40, 1997. | ||||||||
| 4 | П. Питерс, Аутизм. От теоретического понимания к педагогическому воздеиствию. Владос, Москва, 2003. | ||||||||
| 5 | Čerstina Falka. Piktogrammu praktiskais pielietojums. Velku fonds, 2003. | ||||||||
| 6 | Autisms un autiska spektra traucējumi. RSU, ESF, 2008. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.isaac-online.org/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.informahealthcare.com/loi/aac/ | ||||||||
