B021332 - PREVENTION, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND DISABILITIES

Italian

Definition and classification of learning disorders.
Difficulty and disorders.
Neuropsychology of learning disorders.
Coding disorder.
Decoding disorder.
Calculation disorder.
Non-verbal learning disorder.
Understanding of the text.
Language disorder.
Intellectual disabilities and limit intellectual functioning.
Hyperactivity attention disorder.

One of the following instruments of your choice:
Cornoldi C ., Difficoltà e disturbi dell'apprendimento, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.

Consensus Conference sui Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento, Giugno 2010, scaricabile on line al link :
http://www.snlg-iss.it/cms/files/Cc_Disturbi_Apprendimento_sito.pdf

Documento Ministeriale sui BES, 27/12/2012 scaricabile on line

Disturbo specifico dell'Apprendimento, in American Psychiatric Association, Manuale diagnostico e statistico dei disturbi mentali, quinta edizione, DSM V.

Orsolini M., Quando imparare è più difficile, Roma: Carocci, 2011.
Uno dei seguenti strumenti a scelta:
Bigozzi L.; Falaschi E.; Boschi F. (2009). Lessico e ortografia. Arricchimento del vocabolario, correttezza ortografica e abilità di lettura - Nuova Edizione Volume 2. Trento: Erickson, ISBN:9788861375390
Bigozzi L; Falaschi, E.; Pinto, G. (2017). Programma P.A.S.S.I. Percorso operativo per potenziare l’alfabetizzazione e prevenire la dislessia. Trento: Erickson, ISBN:9788859013075

The program of the course is aimed at achieving specific knowledge and skills in the field of prevention and rehabilitation of Specific Learning Disorders and aims to provide adequate knowledge regarding learning difficulties and disorders. The training course aims to increase the theoretical knowledge and the therapeutic management capacity of the individual learning disorders, in the different age groups. The course aims to provide knowledge on typical and atypical functioning in the learning field by comparing specific disorders with secondary ones, to make students aware of the meaning and the ways in which it is possible to do primary prevention, to provide students with the methodological coordinates for a correct evaluation of learning difficulties and disorders, as well as the distinction between the two, to have an overview of the possible lines of enabling intervention. The course will allow to plan the assessment of disorders and school difficulties, to understand how to implement effective prevention and intervention projects in relation to the expressions of the disorder in different age groups, to plan prevention, habilitation, rehabilitation and counseling for the taking charge of the entire rehabilitation process, with a view to EBP. interventions and initiatives, providing the technical tools for immediate operation, towards the DSA.

Knowledge of General Psychology

Knowledge of Developmental Psychology

Knowledge of Disability Psychology in Development

Knowledge and understanding.
Frontal lessons with slides
Explanation with use of material as objective tests and tests.
Exposition of clinical cases by the teacher.
- applying knowledge and understanding
Class exercises and simulations with tools.
- Making judgments
Discussion on the main theoretical issues of the discipline and on the proposed tools.
- Communication skills
Presentation of research results, development evaluations, treatment results.

- Learning skills
Frontal lessons.
Group exercises.
Joint reading of scientific articles.
Case description.

During the course practical exercises will be carried out which will constitute evaluation material.
Those who gave the exam in the first months of the year 2019, are informed about the release of the new edition of the Cornoldi 'Difficulty and Learning Disorders' manual.

Oral examination during which the student must demonstrate knowledge of the learning disabilities described in the manuals, the mental functions and the impairment of the same, must be able to describe the main instruments of prevention, evaluation and intervention described in the texts.