Language Development and Impairment in Children - Speech Therapy and Language Disorders
Cycle
Segundo ciclo
Degree
Mestre
This path is an option of
Coordinator
Vacancies
Brevemente disponível
Education objectives
1.Capacity for developing and deepening theoretical knowledge and methodological and technical skills towards the development of original research in the area of Language Sciences, with a special emphasis on Child Language Impairment;
2.Capacity for developing a critical reflection on different theoretical proposals from Linguistics and its relation with speech therapy;
3.Capacity for applying the theoretical acquisitions on individual and/or joint original research initiatives, relevant for the identification of language needs of school-age children, based on recent development in speech therapy;
4.Capacity for using the new technologies and apply them in the development of new products in the domain of language education, adapted to different stages of language development, and adequate to different assessment and diagnosis needs;
5.Capacity for developing projects in interdisciplinary teams, integrating the area of Speech Therapy and Education, having school-age children as a target group;
6.Capacity for developing new strategies and applying new technological resources in the professional performance in areas related to language diagnosis and intervention;
7. Capacity for carrying on research leading to the writing of an original dissertation on a subject in the domain of Language Sciences, relevant for building knowledge on language development and/or child language impairment, and for an efficient intervention;
8.Capacity for organizing and managing programs for intervention in Speech Therapy, adequate to different pathologies and to language-specific specificities.
Structure
| Obrigatória | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 722170069 | Aquisição da Linguagem na Criança | 10.0 |
| 722170072 | Avaliação e Instrumentos de Diagnóstico | 10.0 |
| 722170068 | Conhecimento Gramatical | 10.0 |
| 722170074 | Dissertação em Terapia da Fala e Perturbações da Linguagem | 60.0 |
| 722170073 | Instrumentos de Análise Gramatical | 10.0 |
| 722170070 | Perturbações do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem | 10.0 |
| 722170071 | Perturbações Específicas da Linguagem em contexto escolar | 10.0 |