Language Pathologies
Code
711131063
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To know about the neurological bases of language and the relationship between brain and language;
b) To identify the main types of pathology at the production and oral comprehension levels;
c) To master some methodologies and basic concepts of the several levels of linguistic analysis necessary for the description of these pathologies;
d) To know some assessment materials of language disorders used in the clinical setting;
e) To apply the knowledge acquired to the linguistic description of data
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Clinical Linguistics
1.1. Object of study, principles and objectives;
1.2. The role of the clinical linguist;
1.3. Relations with Speech Therapy and Aphasiology;
2. The scope of Clinical Linguistics;
2.1. Disruption into the phonetic-phonological level;
2.2. Disruption into the semantic level;
2.3. Discursive disorders;
3. Methodology (s) for case study;
4. Aphasia and Clinical Linguistics;
4.1. Neurological basis of language;
4.2. Clinical diagnosis in aphasia;
4.3. Clinical evaluation of aphasic disorders
4.4. Analysis of ´pathological´ data
Bibliography
Crystal, D. 1981. Clinical Linguistics, Vienna: Springer-Verlag.
Dressler, W. U. & J. Starck. 1988. Linguistic analyses of aphasic language. Vienna: New Springer-Verlag.
Lesser, R. 1978. Linguistic Investigations of aphasia. London: Arnold.
Teaching method
Theoretical presentations, clinical cases videos, data analysis (100%).
Evaluation method
Theoretical presentations, clinical cases videos, data analysis (100%).