Corso di laurea in Educazione Professionale

The teaching aims to help students understand the role of emotions in interpersonal relations and to give meaning to their own and others' emotional experience in the contexts and working situations.

It also aims to help students understand and investigate emotional and communicative processes through which the individual adapts to its environment . 

Finally, it is proposed to provide the main theoretical and practical knowledge about the Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC).

At the end of the teaching is assumed what the students can understand that emotions are a useful tool for understanding better if themselves and the others and then be able to apply in educational practice, the acquired knowledge.

It also assumes that students understand the functions of the emotions as well as communication in the processes of interaction with others.

Finally it is assumed that the students know and know to apply the main strategies about AAC in communicative disabilities and know also choose ( judgment ) the most effective in different communicative situations.

At the end of the teaching it is assumed that students will have understood that emotions are a useful tool to better understand themselves and others, and then be able to apply, in educational practice, the knowledge gained.

Both compared to the emotions that communication, the practical exercises in the classroom will enable students to experience and internalize the main communication strategies particularly helpful in working with people with complex communication needs and to gain awareness of their emotions useful in interpersonal relationships, especially in the aid relations.

The end of teaching testing will assess what each student :

- demonstrate not only that he/she has acquired the content, but also to know how to draw up and expose with a relevant written language, concise and comprehensive, as is usually required in educational reports ;

- will prove to be able to evaluate critically the most obvious differences between the typical and atypical development of emotion and communication.

Slides and lecture notes

experiential workshops and practical exercises

Viewing educational films

The assessment of each student will be by written test. The test will be organized by 4 open-ended questions that provide a report with respect to the following matters:

- A question about " psychology of emotions " (7.5 points)

- A question about " psychology of communication " (7.5 points)

- A personal reflection with respect to the meaning of "communication " comes from the reading of the suggested additional texts by the teacher (7.5 points)

- A question about " Augmentative Alternative Communication " (Integrated Teaching) (7.5 points)

The teaching is divided into two modules .

The first module deals with general aspects of emotional processes with particular reference to:

• Examination of processes of manifestation and communication of emotions ;

• Understanding of the emotional experience themselves and others in front of the contexts and the educator's work situations.

The second part deals with the relationship between emotion and communication. It will be placed special emphasis on augmentative forms of communication alternatives :

• Development of communication

• Outline of the main theories on communication

• verbal and non -verbal communication

• Augmentative Alternative Communication

• Opportunities to communicate and good practices

• augmentative alternative communication tools according to the different pathologies involving difficulties or inability to communicate.

Slides and handouts provided by the teacher during the lessons, available in the " educational    materials " of the teachers' site

- Saverio Fontani (2016), Comunicazione Aumentativa Alternativa e disabilità, Junior Ed.

- Supplementary texts will be communicated and agreed upon in the course.

- Book your choice :

-      NOLAN Christopher (1994), Sotto l'occhio dell'orologio, Tea Ed.

-      LEAVITT David (1986), Ballo di famiglia, Mondadori Ed.

-      HADDON Mark (2003), Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte, Einaudi Ed.

-      BAUBY Jean-Dominique (1999), Lo scafandro e la farfalla, Tea Ed.