1. Disability associated with motor, sensory, intellectual and multiple disabilities
   1.1. Clarification of basic concepts
   1.2. Functionality vs disability
2. The person with disability under the law
   2.1. Legislation regulating the rights and duties of persons with disabilities
3. The inclusion of people with disabilities in society
   3.1. Society towards disability: ethical, social and identity
   3.2. Educational Inclusion
   3.3. Professional Inclusion

1. Communication Theories
   1. 1. The Communication Phenomenon
   1.2. Forms of human communication
   1.3. Aproaches to communication models: processual and semiotic
   1.4. Mediated communication
2. Critical Discourse Analysis
   2.1. Language and society
   2.2. The modes in which ideology impacts
   2.3. Power and hegemony
   2.4. Social representation (inter-discourse, lexical choices, transitivity systems, social actors verbal representations)
3. Social semiótics
   3.1. Semiotic resources
   3.2. Multimodality
   3.3. The gramar of visual design (representation, interaction, composition)
4. Multimodal analysis – Representing disability . news (television; print). reports (tv, documentaries, newsmagazines). magazine covers. cinema/series. institutional advertising. corporate identity

Module I – Mediation

1. Concept of Mediation Mediation and human development;
2. Communication – Specificity of the relational phenomenon and interpersonal negotiation strategies;
3. Mediator characteristics and practices;
4. Mediation in societies: diversity of mediators and mediation practices;
5. The mediator as an object of relationship and mediation as a transactional space.
   Module II – Social and Community Intervention
6. Concept of social intervention;
7. The mediator as a social intervener;
8. Social intervention and community development: community intervention with the various social agents;
9. Projects and experiences of social and community intervention.

Introduction to scientific researchNature and typologies of knowledge.Common sense and scientific knowledge.Construction of scientific knowledge.

Phases of the research process.Conceptual phase

Research and selection of bibliography according to a research subjectInformation organization.

Procedures for scientific writing

The research problem.

The theoretical framework

The research question and objectives.

Methodological phase

Research paradigmsTypes of studies

The object/subject of study: universe, sample and element

Sampling techniques.

Data collection techniques and tools

Data analysis techniquesResearcher’s position in relation to research

Critical reflection of the research process

1. Practices and instruments for characterizing and diagnosing scientific needs in the area of Accessible Communication
2. Techniques and procedures for collecting, analyzing and systematizing the State of the Art;
3. Instruments and techniques for collecting and analyzing data;
4. Academic and ethical standards.