2019 RRTTLC – Octombrie, Vol V, Nr. 2

The aim of this paper is to present the way the speech and language specialists developed their competences during the ERASMUS + project „LINKS−Logopedists Interact for New Knowledge and Skills”. In the first part of the article, there is a short presentation of the Erasmus + program, the participants and the aim of the project. In the second part of the article there is a short description of the main activities of the project and the conclusions. The short description of the course training activities is provided

This article focuses on the importance of introducing didactic play in educational instructive activities with students with special education, as the basis for the entire intervention program. The design of the study is based on the comparison of the final results with the initial outcomes after the intervention programme was applied. Reasearch participants are represented by a number of five pupils from the primary cycle, aged between 8 and 10 years, presenting learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities. At the end of the research you can easily find the significant increase in students` performances by improving cognitive processes as a result of the constant usage of didactic play.

This study aims to examine the impact of on the quality of life among teachers in pre-university and university education. In this respect, the prevalence of voice disorders, quality of life, as well as demographic variables in the two independent samples was examined. The objectives of this research are to compare the prevalence of voice disorders among teachers in pre-university and university education and to investigate the impact of voice disorders on the quality of life among teachers in pre-university education.

This article presents a study of quality of life for hearing impaired and deaf adolescents and emphasizes the impact of the type of communication that they employ on different aspects of their cognitive, linguistic and social development. In the first part, the paper presents the theoretical framework, as well as a literature review of previous studies regarding quality of life for hearing impaired and deaf youth. The second part presents the study, describing the instrument used, the method and the results. The findings of this investigation reveal that hearing impaired and deaf students that learn in a boarding school setting in the special education system are more inclined to use sign language and to interact with their hearing impaired and deaf peers, and less willing to engage in activities with hearing people that involve verbal communication, thus diminishing their linguistic and social development.

This article presents a study conducted on 9 and 10-year-old students with hearing impairments from a special educational setting in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In the first part there is a theoretical framework that sustained the study and its objectives, while in the second part the reader can find the steps and specific interventions that took place and that were detailed in five case studies. After the literature research and after the objectives were defined the study developed as follows: the participants completed an evaluation of their phonological awareness through specific tests, an analysis of the results was drawn and based on it, specific intervention designs were built on working with poetry. The interventions were meant to correct the phonological processing problems that have been identified on the first analysis. For the final evaluation the same test was used as in the first one and the data were compared in order to highlight the progress for each participant as well as for the whole group

Difficulties in articulation of sounds are common in speech and language therapy field. Their therapeutic approaches must be individualized The psycho-individual and age-specific features, as well as the characteristics of the type and degree of a certain disabilities, make speech therapy a unique, original, specific process.
Through the present research we wanted to highlight the uniqueness of the speech therapy sessions, as we follow the classic approach, we can give a specific note to the activities carried out by innovative methods, techniques and means of teaching applied to a distinct category of pupils, those with intellectual disabilities.
The research methodology include the purpose, objectives, research hypotheses, the research approach and the description of the group of participants, emphasizing the description and the usefulness of the ” Paşi prin lumea sunetelor ” application both as an assessment and as an intervention too The accurate identification of psycho- motricity difficulties with consequences on the language at children with intellectual disabilities integrated in compulsory general education is an important aspect which the entire process of integration depends on. It is a complex process which requires the usage of a whole set of probes which include the level of early – learning of the language and which can contribute at the creation of a whole complex portrait, with links to the psycho – motricity and communication abilities of the child, but also to the establishing of the objectives in what concerns the correction and the development of these abilities.
In the first part of the article theoretical topics regarding psychomotricity, language, intellectual disability and the integration into compulsory general education of children with intellectual disability are studied , and in the second part the scientific research is presented after going through three stages: the discovery stage in which we put into practice methods with the purpose of of knowing the individual level of psycho motricity and the level of language development (four students presenting psycho motricity and language difficulties were selected ) the experimental stage which was concerned with the development of case – studies and individual action ( the process of the action was structured as a complex therapy of action, but also as some therapy – learning activities, each instrument being put into practice on every part of language regarding the development of child ‘ s abilities in the next areas: psycho motricity, language and communication, knowledge, socialization ) ; final which consisted of going again through the evaluation tasks which were applied in the discovery stage in order to underline the involvement of psycho motricity on the language and so, checking the research hypothesis.

The purpose of this research was to improve the morphological abilities of the language of students with hearing disability in the secondary school cycle, by using a substantive-adjective intervention program, which is based on a teaching aid.
This article presents a longitudinal case study and the results obtained by applying the following tests: informal language tasks of morphological evaluation, the MLU test and the PEAMR test

Keywords: hearing impairments, morphological abilities, language assessment, teaching aid.

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DOI:10.26744/rrttlc.2019.5.2.08

This study is an analysis of specific linguistic competences and proposes the pedagogical intervention for vocabulary developing and for lecture competences. The optimisation of lecture competences and learning abilities can be achieved by using the assessment of linguistic competences and functional and multiple literacy, using of interactive strategy and mediated learning experience. The didactics approaches of literacy and the personalized linguistic training programmes, if systematically applied, lead to a significant improvement in pupils’ school performance..

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