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CLINICA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE

Teaching Staff

RENATA RIZZO - Module Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry - MED/39 - 3 CFU
ANDREA DI CATALDO - Module Pediatrics - MED/38 - 3 CFU
ANTONIA AGATA LA MANTIA - Module . Communication Clinic - MED/50 - 3 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  Knowing the basics of mental illness with early onset in childhood and adolescence and their course in adulthood.

• Pediatrics
  

  Learning physiology, pathology, clinical and laboratory approach, therapy related to growing individuals, specific issues of preventive pediatrics, pediatric diseases from neonatal age through adolescence

• . Communication Clinic
  

  To acquire knowledge, skills, information, to identify rehabilitation needs

  of the person in developmental and adult age.
  to acquire competence in the compilation of anamnestic data and drafting of a project

  rehabilitation

Course Structure

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  lessons ad internship

• Pediatrics
  

  Academic lessons; practice according to specific calendar scheduled by the Coordinator of the Course

• . Communication Clinic
  

  Frontal lessons

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Detailed Course Content

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  Psychomotor development • Mental delay • Learning Disorders: dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, learning disorder not otherwise specified • Communication disorders: Disorder of speech, expression and disorder mixed receptive language, speech disorder, stuttering, communication disorder not otherwise specified •Autism spetrum disorder,, Rett syndrome,• Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity • Tic Disorders: Tourette syndrome, transient tic disorder, chronic motor tics or vocal • Obsessive compulsive disorder • Anxiety disorders • Mood Disorders • Eating disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia • Enuresis • epilepsies • cerebral palsy microcephaly

• Pediatrics
  

  Neonatology

  The healthy newborn

  The newborn infant and newborn care

  Low birth weight newborn

  Neonatal asphyxia

  Neonatal jaundice

  Neonatal seizures

  Neonatal infections

  Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

  Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age

  Breast feeding

  Milk formula

  Neonatal screening

  Vaccination

  Growth failure

  Nutritional defects

  Infectious diseases

  Exanthematous diseases

  Viral diseases

  Visceral Leishmaniasis

  Asthma

  Respiratory infections

  Cystic fibrosis

  Celiac disease

  Gastroenteritis

  Primary immunodeficiencies

  Phenylketonuria

  Endocrine diseases

  Congenital hypothiroidism

  Diabetes

  Fever of unknown origin

  Mendelian diseases

  Chromosomic diseases

  Normal hematology values trough childhood

  Anemias

  Thalassemias

  Sickle Cell Disease

  Iron deficiency anemia

  Splenomegalies

  Thrombocytopenias

  Leukemias and lymphomas

  Tumours in children

• . Communication Clinic
  

  The development of language in normal and pathological conditions

  Eustachian tube disorders and targeted speech therapy techniques

  to functional rehabilitation
  Narinal and Cost-diaphragmatic Breathing in clinical speech therapy practice

  rehabilitation
  The disorders of organic and functional origin in the articulation of language
  Phonological disorders and the phonactactic structure of language in the developmental age
  
  Disorders of lingual-facial gold-bucco praxic functions of Functional and neuromotor-

  articulated origin

  Typical and atypical swallowing, theories and speech therapy rehabilitation methods

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Textbook Information

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry
  

  R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
  DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA

• . Communication Clinic
  

  Il Manuale di Logopedia De Filippis –Cippone ; .Ed. Erickon

  Manuale di terapia Miofunzionale ;autore Paola Cozza ;ed. Masson

  Terapia Miofunzionale Autore Antonio Ferrante ;ed.Futura

  Manuale di Neuropsicologia dell’età evolutiva G.Sabbadini Ed.Zanichelli

  La Riabilitazione Neuropsicologica in età evolutiva M.R. Pizzamiglio Ed.Franco Angeli

  Il Disordine Fonologico nel Bambino con disturbi del linguaggio; Autori L.Sabbadini,A.G.De

  Cagno,M.Vaquer Ed Springer

  Parla parla parla ; autore A.Manassero ,M. Chiaramello Ed.Omega edizioni;

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