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Pedagogical sciences for inclusive communication mediated by LIS – Italian Sign Language (Inter-University Degree)

Master Degree
LM-85
In presence
Planned
No

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What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

The Master Degree Course trains a professional who has many functions: on the one hand he/she has, in fact, adequate theoretical knowledge and operational skills to carry out activities as a pedagogist, as expected for LM85. At the same time it also provides specific knowledge and skills to carry out the role of inclusive communication assistants in educational services. The professionalism provided by the CDS will allow the inclusive Communication Assistant to:

  • develop effective teaching strategies with the curricular teachers and the support teacher to promote learning, autonomy and inclusion for deaf students;
  • make the different disciplines with their specific vocabulary intelligible to the deaf students, facilitating access to the contents without simplifying them;
  • play a mediation role with the families of deaf students, linking their intervention with other professional figures;
  • activate mediation strategies in communicative and relational terms between deaf students and their classmates and/or their teachers;
  • carry out a mediation action together with the teachers between the deaf pupil's family and the school and generally support relations with outside school;
  • facilitate learning through the use of LIS and/or in a communication method that is as suitable as possible to the needs of deaf students based on their communication habits and preferences.

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What do you learn?

Regarding the role of Pedagogist, see the ministerial declaration for LM85; in relation to the function of inclusive Communication Assistant, graduates will obtain adequate knowledge and skills related to:

  • Italian sign language (LIS) and the specific lexicon of the various disciplines;
  • the history and culture of the deaf in Italy;
  • linguistics for deafness;
  • the psychology of development and learning;
  • the relationship between cognition, deafness and learning and the relationship between mind, body and language;
  • the functioning of the ear, the etiology and types of deafness, the listening aids present today (cochlear implant and hearing aids); the characteristics of lip reading;
  • special pedagogy; - special teaching; - planning and evaluation;
  • communication and mediation strategies and techniques;
  • the relational dimension;
  • the functioning of educational and training institutions and the legislation relating to them;
  • the code of ethical behavior when working at school or in other educational and training contexts.
From a collective and network perspective, the inclusive Communication Assistant will develop the skills and competences relating to group work, so as to be able to operate professionally alongside the support teacher, the curricular teachers and other professional figures such as the Educational operator for autonomy.

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What can you do with it?

As Communication Assistants, graduates will be able to find, as a specific professional opportunity, employment in all level schools, in educational and professional training centres, within Universities as tutors for students, in networking projects with families. As freelancers they will be able to offer their specific skills in the field of communication and LIS to third sector bodies or private individuals for individual services or to facilitate social inclusion paths. Pursuant to current legislation, graduates in the courses of will be authorized to carry out the profession of Pedagogist. They will therefore be able to operate as employees, self-employed/freelance-professional or para-subordinate, within public and/or private or Third Sector organizations and systems, even if not accredited, and in all the areas indicated by current legislation. Within these areas they will be able to play the role of expert pedagogues in educational research, coordinators, supervisors, pedagogical consultants and, with highly responsible functions, they will be able to work in the second level educational and training field in all contexts that require qualified pedagogical responses : in services to individuals, groups, communities, in the educational, social, socio-healthcare fields (specifically for socio-educational aspects) and welfare.