Experiencia de aprendizaxe interdisciplinar entre estudantes de terapia ocupacional e odontoloxía, no deseño de sistemas de comunicación alternativos

Abstract

Background: The project, interdisciplinary and interuniversity, has been proposed by professors of occupational therapy and odontology at the universities of A Coruña and Salamanca. It included the development of five didactic units, based on collaborative learning. The unit focused to communication with patients is presented in this communication. Method: Professors determined learning goals and results, as well as the methodologies and the way to apply the unit. Factors related to AAC’s assessment and use, and the application of Universal Design Principles during communicative process were taken into account in planning. Three practical theoretical sessions were held, complementing the non-contact work. Development: The first session is directed to students of Odontology Bachelor, who, through few case studies, have to detect and determine the difficult in communication that could be appear during dental consultation. The finished work, then, is transmitted to students of Occupational Therapy, being the start point to second session. Occupational therapy’s students consider that work to design solutions to solve the detected problems. To do that, they indicate proposals about AAC’s use and application of Universal Design. The last session is dedicated to the sharing of students’ works, during a joined lesson attendance, with a virtual component. Students participate in rezoning, designing and creating solutions to promote accessibility and universal design, and to apply it in a dentistry clinic and in its material resources, based on pictograms’s use. The students’ assessment contemplates the use of rubrics (heteroevaluation), and of Checklists (Self- Assessment)