TACTILE ITALIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

The course is part of the second year of Languages, civilization and science of language.

The core elements and the goals to be achieved are: to have a basic communication with deafblind people and to learn how to manage different situations, choosing the most suitable methods and solutions.

Students are advised to attend the course of Tactile Italian Sign Language after having attended the course of Italian Sign Language 2.

-Features of the deafblind population
-Communication strategies with deafblind people
I-nteraction with deafblind people
-Guidance and leading techniques
-Feedback
-Some knowledge on tactile perception
-Non-verbal communication
-Formational parameters: LIS vs LISt
-Discussion upon the non-manual markers and their equivalent in LISt
-Interrogative clauses
-Conditional clauses
-The spatial dimension
-The adjectival category in LISt
-The adverbial category in LISt
-Techniques to disambiguate signs
-Social-haptic communication and its possible different applications

Detailed information about the teaching material will be published on the Moodle page associated with the course.

The exam will be divided into two parts: written and oral. Both tests are compulsory and focus on topics covered in class. The written test will consist of closed and open questions. The oral test will consist of an exercise in pairs on interaction in LISt and in the simulation of guiding a deafblind person. Production skills will be evaluated the most.

● Frontal lesson supported by text, images and videos
● Exercises in pairs
● Video observation and commentary
● Dialogical reflection
● Meeting with deafblind guests during lessons

Italian

Lectures will be in Italian.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development