AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

  TRAINING GOALS (DETAIL) 
The teaching of sets the goal of:
- Introduce students to developmental neuropsychology;                                                                                                               - provide students with the basics of the neurobiological maturation processes underlying language development;     
- to have students acquire language development in different components with a focus on the pragmatic-contextual component;  
- develop in students the basics of understanding and language production, the relationship between the development of oral language and learning of reading and writing;

- develop in students knowledge of the functional profiles and evaluation tools of different neuropsychological functions (p.es. attention/executive functions, memory, perception, etc.) and specific modules for each individual neuropsychological function. 
- develop in students the knowledge about the neuropsychological functioning of the subject (functional mapping) in physiological development and in relation to the different pathologies specific to the evolutionary age.
- develop in students the knowledge of the differences between nosographic and functional/neuropsychological assessment.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS 
At the end of the teaching, the student will be able to:
- Know the different functions and modules specific to each individual neuropsychological function;
- Describe the development, organization and pathology of language functions and their relationship with other neuropsychological functions (e.g. perception, memory, attention) and with written language learning;
- Explain the salient deficits/features and assessment in different specific and non-evolutionary age disorders (with a focus on specific language and learning disorders and autism spectrum disorders).
- Know and apply multiple assessment tools;
- Emphasize the positive effects in terms of the delineation of the neuropsychological profile, recognizing in the functional neuropsychological profile of the individual the strengths and weaknesses, the acquired functions, the emerging and those not acquired.

TEACHING METHODS

The lessons are carried out in the front with interactive and participatory modality by the students so that the experiences made in the theory can be correlated. You use for this purpose the personal narration, the comparison in the class.

The program is summarized by slides and complemented by relevant videos.  

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Neuropsichology of the development age 
      Introduction Methodology 
Language Neuropsychology 
- Neurobiological maturation processes underlying language development     
- Language development in different components with a focus on the pragmatic-contextual component. 
- The evaluation of communication and language  
- Specific or primitive disorders of language development: DSM 5 nosographic classification; ICD-10; Neuropsychological classification (Rapin and Allen) and clinic; 
Attention Neuropsychology:
- Selectivity and Intensity Dimensions 
- Executive Functions 
Neuropsychology of Memory                                                                                                                                                      - Memory development                                                                                                                                                                  - Memory models
Introduction to Specific Learning Disorders 
- Dyslexia/ Dys spelling/ Dysgraphia/ Discalculia
- Nosographic Classification (DSM 5; ICD-10) 
- Evaluation (clinical and functional diagnosis) 
Neuropsychology and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
- neuropsychological theories: theory of mind, theory of weak central coherence, theory of deficit executive functions. 
- neuropsychology of emotions. 
- Sensory perception: tools for evaluating/creating sensory-perceptual profiles.
- Cognitive, neuropsychological and behavioural evaluation 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The examination will mainly focus on handouts, documents and articles provided by the teacher.

Recommended Texts:

Vicari S., Caselli MC. (a cura di), “Neuropsicologia dello sviluppo”, Il Mulino, Bologna,2010.

Recommended Reading

- Vicari S., Valeri G., Fava L., “L’autismo. Dalla diagnosi al trattamento, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2012.

- Cornoldi C. “Difficoltà e disturbi dell’apprendimento”, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

EUGENIA DUFOUR (President)

FRANCESCA MARIA BATTAGLIA

ELISA DE GRANDIS

SONIA DI PROFIO

EDVIGE MARIA VENESELLI (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

You can refer to the hour voice of lessons

Class schedule

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL AGE

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The preferred modality will be oral exam also to allow the sharing of the study modalities used by the student and to clarify any doubts emerged during the same

Initially, a student's favorite topic is asked to move later to two other topics at the discretion of the teacher.

Further questions can be made if the student does not respond correctly and/or appears uncertain about the first.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

   Ability to navigate the programme carried out, evaluation of practical reasoning and the ability of central coherence starting from data/examples of cases/clinical situations proposed by the teacher.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION

The examination may not be supported unless the relative propedeucity   is respected.

 As these are integrated course exams, not passing a single discipline involves the repetition of the entire exam.