Augmentative and Alternative Communication

The course will start at 10.8.2026 and end at 18.12.2026.

You can enroll to the course 2.6.2026-9.10.2026. Enrollments will be accepted once a week. Grading of the course will be done every second week during the course time.

The course is studied independently between August 10th and December 18th, 2026. According to students' progress, the student marks the tasks as completed on the itslearning platform.

The course ends with an electronic open book exam, which must be completed on the itslearning platform by December 10th, 2026.

Starting info in Zoom at 7.9.2026 at 15.30-16.30 (voluntary, will be recorded).

Join Zoom Meeting
https://turkuamk.zoom.us/j/66165815635(Opens in a new tab)

The teacher of the course is interpreter lecturer, sign language interpreter, AAC interpreter (Tulkki AMK), FM, AmO, AmE, Study guidance counsellor for international students Ulla Niittyinperä.

You can get to know the teacher in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-MA6jKzxjY(Opens in a new tab)

Online studies, videos, distance lecture, independent exercises, exam.

Content scheduling

The course will start at 10.8.2026 and end at 18.12.2026.

You can enroll to the course 2.6.2026-9.10.2026. Enrollments will be accepted once a week. Grading of the course will be done every second week during the course time.

The course is studied independently between August 10th and December 18th, 2026. According to students' progress, the student marks the tasks as completed on the itslearning platform.

The course ends with an electronic open book exam, which must be completed on the itslearning platform by December 10th, 2026.

Starting info in Zoom at 7.9.2026 at 15.30-16.30 (voluntary, will be recorded).

Join Zoom Meeting
https://turkuamk.zoom.us/j/66165815635(Opens in a new tab)

The teacher of the course is interpreter lecturer, sign language interpreter, AAC interpreter (Tulkki AMK), FM, AmO, AmE, Study guidance counsellor for international students Ulla Niittyinperä.

You can get to know the teacher in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-MA6jKzxjY(Opens in a new tab)

Student's use of time and effort

The scope of the course is 1 credit, i.e. 27 hours of student work.

(Voluntary start, Zoom, 1 h)

Start: info, reading, links, video (1 min), about 1 h
Services: reading, links, video (6 min), assignment, about 2 h
AAC: video (3 min), observation, task, reflection, about 15 min
Easy language: reading, assignments, articles for the exam, about 8.5 hours
Assisted: videos (several, choose a few, 1 h), task, video (2 min), about 1 h
Tools: task, about 1 hour
Symbols: reading, links, task, about 1.25 h
Writing: reading, videos (2 min, 2 min), drawing by yourself, about 15 min
Subjects: reading, video (5 min), about 30 min
Unassisted: reading, assignments, about 30 min
Signs: video (2 min, 2 min, 14 min, 3 min, 4 min), task, video (6 min), about 3 h
Haptics: reading, task, about 30 min
Essential language: reading, video (2 min), about 15 min
Exam: duration 80 min, reading of materials, learning, 7 h

Teaching methods

Online studies, videos, distance lecture, independent exercises, exam.

Alternative ways of completing the course

Possible AHOT/Accreditation: Approval is sought and decisions are made in Peppi. See the instructions in the student's Peppi instructions (which can be found in Messi). The student does the replacement application. The Degree programme leader is the person handling the applications (Olli Toivonen).

Exam schedule

Nonstop. You can do test, when you have studied the course.
You can do the test as many times you like. You need to have 80 % of the answers right, then the test is accepted. There is four parts in the test.