Laura López Blanco is a speech therapist, Blanquerna alumni and technical director of the Kinderapia psychology, speech therapy and early care centre. She is responsible for coordinating the team and carrying out reception, diagnostic and treatment visits to families, as well as managing social networks. She also works at the Saint Nicholas School to help students with language, speech and learning difficulties.

Jordi Roca (1978, Girona) began to suffer problems with his voice in 2016. He stated on his social networks that "for more than 7 months I have been suffering from a severe aphonia that prevents me from speaking normally, it is related to a cervical dystonia that I have suffered from for years". Now he has been able to announce his good progress of recovery.

The seminar on Journalism of Society (4th year), taught by Professor Jaume Risquete, covered on February 28 the event on the occasion of the World Day of Minority Diseases, which was held in Barcelona, in the auditorium of La Pedrera, hosted by the Platform for Rare Diseases (comprising patient associations, the Catalan Federation of Rare Diseases and the Spanish Delegation of Rare Diseases).

As part of the subject Seminar VI: Communication Strategy of the bachelor's degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, last week, the students of Professor Núria Escalona received a visit from Sergi Cutillas, a sound technician at Catalunya Ràdio and sound mastermind of the successful podcast 'Crims (Crime)', by Carles Porta.

The bachelor's degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing of the School of Communication and International Relations and the IRES Foundation have joined forces once again this year in a charitable initiative for Sant Jordi.

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This Monday, the School signed a sponsorship and collaboration agreement with the Catalan Film Academy to give voice to the Academy's Scriptwriting Residency, a scriptwriting incubator for fiction feature films directed by filmmaker Carla Simón.

Helena Roca, alumni of the School of Communication and International Relations (Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, class of 2022) and senior specialist in Corporate Communication of the Bimbo Group, visited the 3rd-year seminar of the Journalism and Corporate Communication degree led by professor Marçal Sintes on Wednesday 22nd.

The u22 Youth Film Festival in Barcelona is holding its fifth edition between 12 and 17 September at the Fundació Joan Miró, and is looking for young people to start working on the Festival team between five months and one month prior to the event.

Last week, as part of the New Media course of the bachelor's degree in Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing, the students of professor Marc Alegre received a visit from Xavier Robles, founder of the influencer agency Vizz, the e-sports club Dux and podcast production company Splendid, among other projects.