{"title":"Communication-related aspects of prospective memory: an exploratory factor analysis of prospective memory questionnaires.","authors":"Dasmine Fraclita D'Souza, Gagan Bajaj, Himani Kotian, Sheetal Raj Moolambally, Jayashree S Bhat","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023233en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023233en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Prospective memory (PM) questionnaires are frequently used to evaluate perceptions of PM skills in daily life. This study aimed to systematically investigate communication-specific attributes using pre-existing PM self-rating questionnaires to inform clinicians and researchers about the role of PM in cognitive communicative evaluations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PM-related items from three questionnaires (i.e., Prospective Memory Questionnaire, Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory, and Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire) were compiled and embedded in Google Forms and distributed to 70 Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) with expertise in Cognitive Communicative Disorders across India. Participants first identified items related to communication, and were then contacted to rate the communication-related PM items using a Likert scale for their degree of appropriateness. Responses from 40 SLPs were obtained and subjected to item-content validity index (i-CVI) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 114 PM items, 28 received ratings over 50% for their relevance to communication. Of the 28 items, 21 had an i-CVI score greater than 0.8. After the removal of overlapping content, 14 items were finalized and subjected to EFA, which resulted in four factors: PM failure due to loss of communicative content, PM failure due to loss of communicative intent, PM cost due to ongoing interference, and PM failure linked to the priority of communicative intent.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study highlights communication-related aspects of PM that can be used as a framework for SLPs to assess and research PM skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 4","pages":"e20230233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt
Carolina Felix Providello, Ana Paola Nicolielo Carrilho, Vânia Peixoto, Maria de Fátima Serdoura Cardoso Maia, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos Hage
{"title":"Lexical repertoire of 24 and 30-month-old children speaking Brazilian portuguese: preliminary results.","authors":"Carolina Felix Providello, Ana Paola Nicolielo Carrilho, Vânia Peixoto, Maria de Fátima Serdoura Cardoso Maia, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos Hage","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To check the lexical repertoire of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children at 24 and 30 months of age and the association between the number of words spoken and the following variables: socioeconomic status, parents' education, presence of siblings in the family, whether or not they attend school, and excessive use of tablets and cell phones.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>30 parents of children aged 24 months living in the state of São Paulo participated in the study. Using videoconferencing platforms, they underwent a speech-language pathology anamnesis, an interview with social services, and then they completed the \"MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory - First Words and Gestures\" as soon as their children were 24 and 30 months old. Quantitative and qualitative inferential inductive statistics were applied.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the median number of words produced was 283 at 24 months and 401 at 30 months, indicating an increase of around 118 words after six months. The child attending a school environment had a significant relationship with increased vocabulary.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study reinforces the fact that vocabulary grows with age and corroborates the fact that children aged 24 months already have a repertoire greater than 50 words. Those who attend school every day produce at least 70 more words than those who do not.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 4","pages":"e20230268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt
Alessandra Thais Beraldo, Julia Batistella, Perla do Nascimento Martins, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Eliane Cristina Pereira
{"title":"Immediate effect of inspiratory exercise with exerciser and respiratory encourager in women without vocal complaints.","authors":"Alessandra Thais Beraldo, Julia Batistella, Perla do Nascimento Martins, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Eliane Cristina Pereira","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To evaluate the immediate effect of the inspiratory exercise with a booster and a respiratory exerciser on the voice of women without vocal complaints.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>25 women with no vocal complaints, between 18 and 34 years old, with a score of 1 on the Vocal Disorder Screening Index (ITDV) participated. Data collection was performed before and after performing the inspiratory exercise and consisted of recording the sustained vowel /a/, connected speech and maximum phonatory times (MPT) of vowels, fricative phonemes and counting numbers. In the auditory-perceptual judgment, the Vocal Deviation Scale (VSD) was used to verify the general degree of vocal deviation. Acoustic evaluation was performed using the PRAAT software and the parameters fundamental frequency (f0), jitter, shimmer, harmonium-to-noise ratio (HNR), Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed (CPPS), Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) and Acoustic Breathiness Index (ABI). To measure the aerodynamic measurements, the time of each emission was extracted in the Audacity program. Data were statistically analyzed using the Statistica for Windows software and normality was tested using the Shapiro-Wilk test. To compare the results, Student's and Wilcoxon's t tests were applied, adopting a significance level of 5%.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were no significant differences between the results of the JPA and the acoustic measures, in the pre and post inspiratory exercise moments. As for the aerodynamic measures, it was possible to observe a significant increase in the value of the TMF /s/ (p=0.008).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was no change in vocal quality after the inspiratory exercise with stimulator and respiratory exerciser, but an increase in the MPT of the phoneme /s/ was observed after the exercise.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 4","pages":"e20230148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129852/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-13eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en
Monalysse Francisca Pereira Dos Santos, Luana Celly Silva Aprígio, João Victor Silva de Barros Lima, Fernanda Dreux Fernandes Miranda, Cristiano Miranda de Araújo, Karinna Veríssimo Meira Taveira, Cíntia Alves Salgado-Azoni
{"title":"Impact of reading intervention on the phonological awareness of children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Monalysse Francisca Pereira Dos Santos, Luana Celly Silva Aprígio, João Victor Silva de Barros Lima, Fernanda Dreux Fernandes Miranda, Cristiano Miranda de Araújo, Karinna Veríssimo Meira Taveira, Cíntia Alves Salgado-Azoni","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To review studies that have intervention in reading with impacts on phonological awareness in children with autism spectrum disorder.</p><p><strong>Research strategies: </strong>Searches took place until February 2021 in Cochrane, Embase, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature), PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web of Science and gray literature databases.</p><p><strong>Selection criteria: </strong>The review included experimental studies with preschoolers and schoolchildren with ASD. Two independent reviewers selected the studies and, in case of disagreement, a third reviewer was consulted.</p><p><strong>Data analysis: </strong>Joanna Briggs Institute checklists were used for risk of bias. A random effects meta-analysis was performed and the certainty of the evidence was assessed using the GRADE tool.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight studies with some impact on phonological awareness were reviewed. The risk of bias was low and moderate. The certainty of the evidence was low for randomized trials and very low for non-randomised trials. Comparison of pre- and post-therapy on the Preschool Literacy Test (TOPEL) showed that children with ASD improved phonological awareness, with a mean difference between baseline and post-therapy of 6.21 (95% CI = 3.75-8.67; I2 = 0%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Shared reading and software activities with words and phrases can alter phonological awareness. These results support further research with larger samples and a detailed description of the intervention to observe its effectiveness in phonological awareness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 3","pages":"e20220336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11104507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and validation of a novel Context-Based Prospective Memory Task among neurotypical adults.","authors":"Dasmine Fraclita D'Souza, Sharon Ashley, Gagan Bajaj, Sheetal Raj Moolambally, Jayashree Sunil Bhat","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023180en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023180en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To address the paucity and potential of context-based prospective memory (PM) assessment tasks suitable to Indian ethnicity, the study aimed to develop a novel context-based PM task and determine its psychometric properties among neurotypical adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Rendered images in 2-D were extracted from a 3-D shopping mall, where PM and ongoing tasks were embedded within them to provide participants with a semi-immersive experience. The design and scoring of the novel task were constructed in alignment with the Memory for Intentions Screening Test. Fifty neurotypical adults in and around Mangaluru were recruited. The Memory of Intentions Test (MIST) and novel context-based PM task were administered.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The validity of the novel task was established with a Content Validity Index of 0.98. The intraclass correlation for the test-retest reliability of the novel context-based PM task was 0.92 (p<0.001) and the inter-rater reliability was 0.98 (p<0.001). The internal consistency of the six subscales was high (Cronbach's α= 0.86), and the Spearman-Brown coefficient indicated a strong split-half reliability of 0.87. Spearman's correlation showed that the trials exhibited strong connections to the dichotomic characteristics of the subscales to which they belonged. Further, McNemar's test suggested similar profiles of the participants for the MIST and novel task.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results of the present study suggest that the novel context-based PM task offers good validity and reliability measures, providing valuable insight into the mechanisms of PM, and therefore, could be ideal for inclusion in a battery of cognitive assessments.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 3","pages":"e20230180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11104506/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-04-29eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023203en
Joana Carolina Martins Simões, Denny Marcos Garcia, Francisco Veríssimo De Mello-Filho, Claudia Maria De Felício, Luciana Vitaliano Voi Trawitzki
{"title":"Relationship between bite force, occlusal contact area, and three-dimensional facial soft tissue in dentofacial deformities.","authors":"Joana Carolina Martins Simões, Denny Marcos Garcia, Francisco Veríssimo De Mello-Filho, Claudia Maria De Felício, Luciana Vitaliano Voi Trawitzki","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023203en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20242023203en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to investigate three-dimensional facial soft tissue dimensions, maximum bite force (MBF), and occlusal contact area in patients with DFD. In addition, we analyzed the relationship between MBF and the three-dimensional facial measurements.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty-two patients with skeletal Class III DFD and 20 patients with Class II DFD underwent a soft tissue evaluation using surface laser scanning, as well as MBF and occlusal contact area assessments. The DFD groups were compared with each other and with 25 healthy subjects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant morphological differences were found in the transversal, vertical, and anteroposterior dimensions between Class II DFD and Class III DFD. Both DFD groups presented an increased linear distance of chin height, which was strongly related with decreased MBF magnitude. The DFD groups exhibited lower MBF and occlusal contact area, with no significant differences between Class II and Class III DFD.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The presence of DFD affected 3D measurements of facial soft tissue, causing variations beyond normal limits, lower MBF, and occlusal contact area in both Class II and Class III DFD patients. The vertical dimension might have influenced the lower MBF magnitude in the studied skeletal deformities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 3","pages":"e20230203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11065403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140870327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-04-29eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023159en
Febha Varghese, Sudhin Karuppali
{"title":"Parental perspectives on the impact of screen time on the language skills of typically developing Indian children.","authors":"Febha Varghese, Sudhin Karuppali","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023159en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20242023159en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The overuse of screen-based devices results in developmental problems in children. Parents are an integral part of the children's language development. The present study explores the parental perspectives on the impact of screen time on the language skills of typically developing school-going children using a developed questionnaire.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>192 parents of typically developing children between 6 and 10 years of age participated in the study. Phase 1 of the study included the development of a questionnaire targeting the impact of screen devices on language development. The questionnaire was converted into an online survey and was circulated among the parents in Phase 2. Descriptive statistics were performed on the retrieved data and a chi-square test was done to determine the association between the use of screen devices across all language parameters.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Parents reported television and smartphones to be the most used type of device, with a large proportion of children using screen-based devices for 1-2 hours per day. Most parents reported children prefer watching screens mainly for entertainment purposes, occasionally under supervision, without depending on them as potential rewards. The impact of screen-based devices on language skills has been discussed under the semantics, syntax, and pragmatic aspects of language.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this study will help identify the existing trends in the usage of screen-based devices by children, thereby identifying potential contributing factors towards language delays. This information will also benefit in parental counselling during the interventional planning of children with language delays.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 3","pages":"e20230159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11065402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140855541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a better diagnosis of mouth breathing: validity and reliability of a protocol for assessing the awake breathing pattern in preschool children.","authors":"Morgane Warnier, Léonor Piron, Dominique Morsomme, Christelle Maillart","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242022330en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20242022330en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The Awake Breathing Pattern Assessment (ABPA) is a prototypical clinical grid recently designed through an international consensus of Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs) to categorize the awake and habitual breathing pattern during the orofacial myofunctional assessment. This cross-sectional study aims to explore the psychometric properties of the ABPA in a preschool population.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>133 children from 2;11 to 6 years old were assessed with the ABPA. The percentage of time spent breathing through the mouth was objectively measured by a CO2 sensor and used as a baseline measurement. We first performed a multivariate Latent Profile Analysis based on the CO2 measurement and a parental questionnaire to define the number of categories that best characterize the breathing pattern. Subsequently, we assessed the intra- and inter-rater reliability, internal consistency criterion validity, construct validity and sensitivity and specificity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The awake breathing pattern can best be described by two groups: nasal and mouth breathing. The ABPA, initially designed in three groups, was adjusted accordingly. This final version showed excellent intra-rater and inter-rater reliability. There was a significant correlation between the ABPA and the CO2 measurement. The ABPA showed a fair sensitivity and a good specificity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The reference tool based on CO2 data was used in children for the first time and was found to be reliable. The ABPA is a suitable tool for SLPs to confirm the diagnosis of mouth breathing in preschool children if more sensitive screening tools, like parental questionnaires, are used beforehand.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 3","pages":"e20220330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11065404/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-04-26eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20232023048pt
Ana Karina Lima Buriti, Cyntia Barbosa Laureano Luiz, Laís Rocha de Barros Oliveira, Italo Capraro Suriano, Daniela Gil
{"title":"Central auditory processing and self-perception questionnaire after acoustically controlled auditory training in individuals with mild traumatic brain injury.","authors":"Ana Karina Lima Buriti, Cyntia Barbosa Laureano Luiz, Laís Rocha de Barros Oliveira, Italo Capraro Suriano, Daniela Gil","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20232023048pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20232023048pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To correlate behavioral assessment results of central auditory processing and the self-perception questionnaire after acoustically controlled auditory training.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study assessed 10 individuals with a mean age of 44.5 years who had suffered mild traumatic brain injury. They underwent behavioral assessment of central auditory processing and answered the Formal Auditory Training self-perception questionnaire after the therapeutic intervention - whose questions address auditory perception, understanding orders, request to repeat statements, occurrence of misunderstandings, attention span, auditory performance in noisy environments, telephone communication, and self-esteem. Patients were asked to indicate the frequency with which the listed behaviors occurred.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Figure-ground, sequential memory for sounds, and temporal processing correlated with improvement in following instructions, fewer requests to repeat statements, increased attention span, improved communication, and understanding on the phone and when watching TV.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Auditory closure, figure-ground, and temporal processing had improved in the assessment after the acoustically controlled auditory training, and there were fewer auditory behavior complaints.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":"36 2","pages":"e20230048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11086975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140858481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}