The course has two main goals. The first one is to propose an education finalized to learn the main classification methods of language disorders in pathologies such as aphasia, autism, schizophrenia. The second is to illustrate how the investigation of language disorders might be used to inform theoretical models on language functioning.
teacher profile teaching materials
- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Deriu, V., Altavilla, D., Lucentini, S., Marini, A., Valeri G., Magni R., Vicari S. & Ferretti, F. (2020). An investigation of visual narrative comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders. Cognitive processing
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-020-00976-6
Programme
The course focuses on language pathologies, with particular attention to the deficits related to the discursive communication. Among the cases discusses, there are the communicative deficits characterizing pathologies such as autism, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury. In such cases, as well as in many neuropsychological and psychopathological disorders, the communicative impairments mainly concern the level of discourse and depend on deficits that primarily involve the cognitive dimension, rather than the linguistic one. Thus, the study of discourse disorders is particularly useful to investigate a more general question that is extremely relevant from a theoretical point of view: the relationships between language and cognition.Core Documentation
- Adornetti I., 2018, Patologie del linguaggio e della comunicazione. Carocci, Roma- Bambini V., 2017, Il cervello pragmatico, Carocci (Le Bussole), Roma.
- Adornetti, I., Chiera, A., Deriu, V., Altavilla, D., Lucentini, S., Marini, A., Valeri G., Magni R., Vicari S. & Ferretti, F. (2020). An investigation of visual narrative comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders. Cognitive processing
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-020-00976-6
Type of delivery of the course
The final decision on the teaching modality will be subject to the pandemic trendAttendance
discretionaryType of evaluation
In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out teaching activities and student evaluation will be implemented. In particular, the following methods will be applied: telematic oral exams.