91338 - Speech and Language Therapy in Speech Sound Disorders

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

Assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders (organic and functional aetiology)

Course contents

-Phonetic and phonological development
- Speech Sound Disorder: etiological, psycholinguistic and linguistic classifications
-Articulation disorders of organic and functional nature
-Assessment and treatment of functional articulation disorders
-Assessment and treatment of organic articulation disorders (cleft palate, ankyloglossia, malocclusions)
-Eustachian tube rehabilitation

Readings/Bibliography

Pinton, A. (2018). I disturbi fonetici e fonologici nell'età dello sviluppo. Italia: Carocci.

Dodd, B. (2013). Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Children with Speech Disorder. Germania: Wiley.

Teaching methods

Lectures, practice, discussion of clinical cases.

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Slides and video. 

Office hours

See the website of Giulia Iaccheri