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The activities guarantee a substantial objective in the first year of the course: direct, train, harmonize the person-student in a communicative sense, preliminary condition to then integrate the various specific technical skills of study. The aims of this initial training are: to structure the student speech therapist those personal skills that allow a comprehensive approach to patient and his socio-family unit, as well as adaptation to the individual case of techniques and expressive methods experimented on a personal level and therefore usable in an opportune way with therapeutic and rehabilitative value. The training offer of the Degree Course in Speech Therapy includes training internships with compulsory attendance regarding expressive activities, relaxation activities, musical activities, a holistic approach to the patient in developmental, adult and geriatric age. These in-depth studies and direct experiments constitute the so-called “know-how do technicians "that you need to have in order to acquire the skill set e specific knowledge of many re-educational techniques and methods substantially applied later. The second objective of the first year practical training is the knowledge and guided observation of broad reference frameworks for physiology of the child and general conditions of a gerontological type e geriatric in the elderly. The experience carried out so far has shown the usefulness of these settings, remembering how the attention to the evolution of the child in the first years of life is intended as a prerequisite for the knowledge and evaluation of communication and language also for adults and the involutionary age. To confirm the above, the entire first year of studies does not take place in clinical environment as the relative prerequisite is

After attending the internship of the first year, the student is expected to be able to have attained sufficient knowledge on the physiological global evolution of the child from 0 to 5 years and on the reference schemes relating to: - psychomotor and communicative developmental stages (walking, verbal communication, socialization, motor skills, etc.) - detection of the different developmental times for each child in the context of physiological and harmonic development - having detected the first approaches with pathologies in developmental age present in the structures attended. For the geriatric area, the expected learning outcomes concern having reached the skills to be able to compare the physiological involution of communication, especially in the linguistic field of frail childhood compared to the pathological elderly.

The internship is therefore carried out in the two semesters through: 1) observation of the physiological aspects of the global evolution of the child from 0 to 5 years, to be carried out in facilities such as: • Departments of Neonatology, to ensure a direct approach to the neurological examination of the newborn and observation of neonatal behavior and reflexes;  • Kindergartens and preschools, because through the knowledge and observation of healthy children students can have adequate frames of reference, in particular with regard to:           • psychomotor and communicative developmental stages (walking, verbal communication, socialization, motor skills, etc.)                                                                                             • detection of the different developmental times for each child within the scope of physiological development                                                                                                   • observation and direct knowledge of institutions. 2) attendance of welfare institutions, with particular regard to the band geriatric.

The internship consists of attendance at the locations appointed by the Degree
Program Coordinator and approved by the Degree Program Board and by periodic meetings with the professional internship tutors

The internship exam consists of an ORAL test during which the student must demonstrate that he has acquired the knowledge and personal skills that allow a global approach to the patient and his socio-family unit, as well as knowledge of broad reference frameworks for the physiology of the child and the general conditions of a gerontological and geriatric type in the elderly. There are at least three exam questions in the oral exam and concern an observational report compiled and presented by the student on the communicative interaction of the child and one on the interaction of the elderly. A question will be devoted to the evaluation of the contents of the annual internship program. The final grade is out of thirty and it is essential, in order to pass the Internship Module, to acquire a grade equal to or greater than 18/30. Otherwise, the student will have to repeat the entire annual internship.