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Speech therapy rehabilitation of degenerative diseases (2023/2024)
Teaching code
4S000171
Credits
8
Coordinator
Language
Italian
Courses Single
Not AuthorizedThe teaching is organized as follows:
Learning objectives
Through the knowledge of the main clinical problems of the elderly, the teaching aims at acquiring communication and relational tools useful for managing the relationship with patients and their families and to provide knowledge to identify and rehabilitate the dysphagic patient or with cognitive deficits arising after neurological events. GERIATRIC MODULE Training objectives: The objectives of the course will be the recognition, interpretation and management of the main clinical problems of the elderly. In particular, the physiology of aging, multidimensional evaluation, disability, immobilization syndrome, the risk of falls, syncope, malnutrition and dehydration will be educational objectives. MODULE LOGOPEDIA OF ALTERATION OF UPPER CORTICAL FUNCTIONS AND OF THE DRAWINGS Educational objectives: Knowledge: To provide knowledge on the identification and management of the dysphagic patient. Anatomo-functional aspects of the different phases of swallowing diversifying them between the adult and geriatric patient. Recognizing the pathologies in which the eating disorder and the swallowing disorder can be found and what this can entail in the adult and senile age. Learn to think about complex clinical pictures both from a diagnostic and rehabilitative point of view. Plan a specific rehabilitation project aimed at the individual patient. The most frequent rehabilitative techniques in the field of neurological dysphagia, neurodegenerative and oncological dysphagia. Physiology of swallowing; Physiopathology of dysphagia Primary presbyopia; Dysphagia Position of dysphagia in adulthood and secondary presbyopia. Skills: Guidelines on the management of adult dysphagic patients (interdisciplinary management) Identify patients at risk of dysphagia: Administer swallowing screening in patients at risk of dysphagia and in the tracheostomised patient. Administer the self-assessment questionnaires of the swallowing function. Conduct the interview and counseling with deglutological value Perform non-instrumental clinical evaluation of swallowing in adulthood and in involutionary age. Observe and monitor the meal. Report the logopedic evaluation and rehabilitation process of the dysphagic patient, the objectives and the rationale of speech therapy treatment with reference to the swallowing deficit and the underlying pathology. Conduct Couseling to the caregiver Perform individualized treatment. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY MODULE Training objectives: To provide a historical-methodological picture of the clinical approach in psychology. To offer elements on how to interpret psychopathology . To help learners to better communicate with patients and their relatives and also to better manage relational and organizational components of their work by learning and putting in practice useful communication skills. COGNITIVE REHABILITATION MODULE IN NEUROLOGICAL PATHOLOGIES OF ADULT Training objectives: To provide knowledge about: - the most common cognitive deficits that arise after neurological events; to the testistic methods useful for identifying the cognitive deficit and their interpretation; elements of neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Prerequisites and basic notions
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Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade of the course is given by the average of the grades of the individual modules.