{"title":"Linguistic and cognitive skills in readers and nonreaders.","authors":"Renata Mousinho, Jane Correa","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>investigation of linguistic and cognitive skills in readers and nonreaders.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to evaluate the performance of readers and nonreaders in tasks related to several linguistic and cognitive skills and to determine the implication of the results to the clinical practice and to eduaction.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>participants of the study were 35 children in the process of alphabetization. The children were given tasks designed to assess their cognitive and linguistic abilities. The group of nonreaders was composed by 20 children who did not read any of the words presented on a list of 24 items. The group of readers included 15 children who read nearly every word presented on the same list.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the group of readers presented a better performance on the following tasks: language development assessment; alphanumeric rapid automatized naming and working memory. There was a great variability in the performance of readers and nonreaders in the phonological awareness tasks. For the group of readers, syllabic judgment and segmentation tasks were considered easy or very easy; syllabic transposition and phonemic subtraction presented medium difficulty and phoneme identification was considered a difficult task. For the group of nonreaders, syllabic segmentation was considered an easy task; syllabic judgment presented medium difficulty, and syllabic transposition, phonemic subtraction and phoneme identification were considered very difficult.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>the experience with reading influences the performance of children in linguistic and cognitive tasks. The performance of readers and nonreaders in the phonological awareness assessments indicates the importance of taking into account not only the required level of linguistic segmentation but also the cognitive level required by the nature of the task.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"113-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Selma Mie Isotani, Marisa Frasson de Azevedo, Brasília Maria Chiari, Jacy Perissinoto
{"title":"Expressive language of two year-old pre-term and full-term children.","authors":"Selma Mie Isotani, Marisa Frasson de Azevedo, Brasília Maria Chiari, Jacy Perissinoto","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>expressive language of pre-term children.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to compare the expressive vocabulary of two year-old children born prematurely, to that of those born at term.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>the study sample was composed by 118 speech-language assessment protocols, divided in two groups: the pre-term group (PTG) composed by 58 underweight premature children followed by a multi-professional team at the Casa do Prematuro (House of Premature Children) at Unifesp, and the full-term group (FTG) composed by 60 full-term born children. In order to evaluate the expressive language of these children, the Lave - Lista de Avaliação do Vocabulário Expressivo (Assessment List of the Expressive Vocabulary) was used. The Lave is an adaptation of the LDS - Language Development Survey - for the Brazilian Portuguese Language. The Lave investigates the expressive language and detects delays in oral language.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>children born underweight and prematurely present a greater occurrence of expressive language delay, 27.6%. These pre-term children present significantly lower expressive vocabulary and phrasal extension than children of the same age born at full-term in all semantic categories. Family income proved to be positively associated to phrasal extension, as well as to gestational age and weight at birth; thus indicating the effect of these adverse conditions still during the third year of age. The audiological status was associated to word utterances in the PTG.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>children born prematurely and underweight are at risk in terms of vocabulary development; this determines the need for speech-therapy intervention programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"155-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Debora Maria Befi-Lopes, Amalia Rodrigues, Marina Leite Puglisi
{"title":"Number morpheme acquisition in children within normal language development.","authors":"Debora Maria Befi-Lopes, Amalia Rodrigues, Marina Leite Puglisi","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>studies about Brazilian Portuguese number morpheme acquisition and its productive usage have indicated controversial results.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to verify the comprehension and production of singular and plural markers in children within normal language development.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>participants were 64 children ranging in age from 3:0 to 6:11 years. In the comprehension test, children were encouraged to point to the correctly inflected noun picture, among three foils. In the production test, they had to name each picture with the correctly inflected article and noun.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>there was an increase of correct answers with age. The production of the plural form received the lower scores, but presented a significant enhancement from 3:0 to 5:0 years.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>this ability improved with development and was considered productive after 5:0.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"171-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helena Bolli Mota, Maria das Graças de Campos Melo Filha
{"title":"Phonological awareness abilities of individuals after speech therapy.","authors":"Helena Bolli Mota, Maria das Graças de Campos Melo Filha","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>phonological awareness abilities of children with a history of speech-language disorders.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to compare the phonological awareness abilities of individuals who recovered from phonological disorders after having gone through speech-language treatment with that of individuals with typical phonological development.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>participants of this study were eighteen individuals, nine in the experimental group and nine in the control group. Both groups had their phonological awareness abilities evaluated through the Metalinguistic Sequential Evaluation Instrument Confias.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>significant statistical differences were observed between the groups in terms of the following performances: rhyme identification, rhyme production, syllable exclusion, on all of the activities involving syllables and on the activities involving phoneme exclusion, phoneme segmentation, and phoneme transposition, on all of the activities involving phonemes and also on all of the activities involving phonological awareness. The control group presented a better performance in all of the activities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>even after speech therapy the experimental group presented a worse performance in terms of the phonological awareness abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"119-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Freitas Rossi, Deise Helena de Souza, Danilo Moretti-Ferreira, Célia Maria Giacheti
{"title":"Speech fluency profile in Williams-Beuren syndrome: a preliminary study.","authors":"Natalia Freitas Rossi, Deise Helena de Souza, Danilo Moretti-Ferreira, Célia Maria Giacheti","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>the speech fluency pattern attributed to individuals with Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is supported by the effectiveness of the phonological loop. Some studies have reported the occurrence of speech disruptions caused by lexical and semantic deficits. However, the type and frequency of such speech disruptions has not been well elucidated.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to determine the speech fluency profile of individuals with WBS and to compare the speech performance of these individuals to a control group matched by gender and mental age.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Twelve subjects with Williams-Beuren syndrome, chronologically aged between 6.6 and 23.6 years and mental age ranging from 4.8 to 14.3 years, were evaluated. They were compared with another group consisting of 12 subjects with similar mental age and with no speech or learning difficulties. Speech fluency parameters were assessed according to the ABFW Language Test: type and frequency of speech disruptions and speech rate. The obtained results were compared between the groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In comparison with individuals of similar mental age and typical speech and language development, the group with Williams-Beuren syndrome showed a greater percentage of speech discontinuity, and an increased frequency of common hesitations and word repetition.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The speech fluency profile presented by individuals with WBS in this study suggests that the presence of disfluencies can be caused by deficits in the lexical, semantic, and syntactic processing of verbal information. The authors stress that further systematic investigations on the subject are warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"107-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luzia Maria Pozzobom Ventura, Orozimbo Alves Costa Filho, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga
{"title":"Central hearing system maturation in normally hearing children.","authors":"Luzia Maria Pozzobom Ventura, Orozimbo Alves Costa Filho, Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>the long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP) provide objective data about the function of hearing cortical structures.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to characterize the maturation of the central hearing system in normally hearing children.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>record of LLAEP of fifty-six subjects with hearing tresholds within normal limits, of both genders, being 46 children and 10 adults. With the availability of two recording channels, one was directed to register the LLAEP and the other, to record the artifact generated by ocular movement, aiming at its control. The potentials were recorded with subjects in an alert state, through electrodes positioned in Cz (active) and A2 (reference), and the ocular movements, through electrodes in the left supra and infra-orbital positions; the ground electrode was placed in A1. The morphology and the values of latency and of amplitude for components P1, N1 and P2, according to age, were analyzed. In order to verify the reproducibility of the recorded potentials, a double blind study was carried out, by introducing the analysis of another evaluator.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the double blind study did not present statistically significant differences between the analyses. With the increase in age there was an improvement in the morphology and a decrease in the latency values of components P1, N1 and P2. Also there was a decrease in the amplitude of component P1 and no variation in the amplitude values was observed for components N1 and P2. No statistically significant difference was observed between genders.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>the maturational process of the central hearing system occurs gradually, being the greatest changes observed when comparing children and adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"101-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vocal and laryngeal modifications produced by the sonorous tongue vibration technique.","authors":"Karine Schwarz, Carla Aparecida Cielo","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>effectiveness of the sonorous tongue vibration technique (STVT).</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to investigate the sensations and the vocal and laryngeal impact produced by the sonorous tongue vibration technique.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The STVT was performed in three sets of fifteen repetitions, in maximum phonatory duration using a normal tone and intensity - with 30 seconds intervals of passive rest between each set. Twenty-four women aged between 20 and 30 years and with no vocal complaints participated in the study. All participants were submitted to a larynx evaluation through videolaryngostroboscopy examination; auditory perceptual and acoustic analysis of the voice, before and after using the STVT, by means of the Multi-Dimensional Voice Program (MDVP), Model 5105 and Real Time Spectrogram, from Key Elemetrics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>after using the STVT, a statistically significant difference was observed in terms of: improvement of voice type; focus of vertical resonance; vocal quality; predominance of positive sensations; maintenance of the larynx images parameters (glottis closure, laryngeal vestibule constriction, symmetry and amplitude of vocal folds vibration); increase in fundamental frequency; improvement of spectrographic evaluation parameters, in Broadband and Narrowband filters; and improvement of medial vestibule constriction according to increase in STVT duration.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>the STVT modifies the glottal source and the resonant filter.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"161-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mara Renata Rissatto, Beatriz Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Caiuby Novaes
{"title":"Hearing aids in children: the importance of the verification and validation processes.","authors":"Mara Renata Rissatto, Beatriz Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Caiuby Novaes","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200008","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND: during the fitting of hearing aids in children it is important, besides using a verification protocol, to have a validation process. AIM: to describe and discuss the use of a protocol for the fitting and the verification of hearing aids in children, as well as the impact of the adjustment of the acoustic characteristics in speech perception tasks. METHOD: ten children aging from three to eleven years were enrolled in this study. All children presented bilateral sensorineural hearing impairment, were users of hearing aids and were followed at a public hearing health care service in Bahia. The children were submitted to the following procedures: pure tone air and bone conduction thresholds; real-ear coupler difference (RECD); verification with real-ear measurement equipment: coupler gain/output and insertion gain and to speech perception tasks: \"The Six-Sound Test\" (Ling, 2006) and the \"Word Associations for Syllable Perception\" (WASP - Koch, 1999). The programmed electro acoustic characteristics of the hearing aids were compared to the electro acoustic characteristics prescribed by the DSL [i/o] v4.1 software. The speech perception tasks were reapplied on three occasions: straight after the modification of the electro acoustic characteristics, after 30 days and 60 days. RESULTS: for more than 50% of the tested children, the programmed electro acoustic characteristics of the hearing aids did not correspond to that suggested by the DSL [i/o] software. Adequate prescription was verified in 70% of the investigated sample; this was also confirmed by the results in the speech perception tasks (p=0.000). This data confirmed that the mean percentage of correct answers increased after the modification of the electro acoustic characteristics. CONCLUSION: the use of a protocol that verifies and validates the fitting of hearing aids in children is necessary.","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"131-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phonological error analysis of acquired speech apraxia.","authors":"Maysa Luchesi Cera, Karin Zazo Ortiz","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>the phonological characterization of the errors present in the speech of individuals with speech apraxia can elucidate several aspects of this disorder and consequently lead to the development of effective therapeutic interventions. Generally, studies that have characterized the errors present in speech apraxia were developed in other languages other than the Brazilian Portuguese (BP). The existing national literature about this theme is based on these studies.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to present the phonological analysis of the errors present in the speech of individuals with speech apraxia, speakers of the BP language.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>20 adults with speech apraxia were evaluated. The analysis of phonological errors, such as substitution and omission was made.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>a few of the most affected phonemes in the speech of apraxic individuals (/b/, /lambda / e /3 /), speakers of the BP language, were different from those usually described in international studies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>results suggest that the errors present in the speech of apraxic individuals can suffer the influence of language once the most frequent errors found in the present study were different from those described in the international literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"143-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Cristina Côrtes Gama, Cláudia Fernanda Tolentino Alves, Janaína da Silva Berto Cerceau, Letícia Caldas Teixeira
{"title":"Correlation between acoustic-perceptual data and voice-related quality of life in elderly women.","authors":"Ana Cristina Côrtes Gama, Cláudia Fernanda Tolentino Alves, Janaína da Silva Berto Cerceau, Letícia Caldas Teixeira","doi":"10.1590/s0104-56872009000200007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>vocal quality and voice-related quality of life in elderly women</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>to assess the vocal quality and voice-related quality of life in elderly women, as well as verify if the presence of dysphonia has an influence on the life quality of these women.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>one hundred and three elderly women, with ages ranging from 60 to 103 years, were recruited. The V-RQOL was answered by the participants and their voices were registered and analyzed perceptually by five experienced speech pathologists, using the GRBASI scale. After the intra-rater reliability analysis, three speech pathologists were selected with whom a single GRBASI scale was built for each of the participant's voice. Later, this single assessment was compared to the physical, socio-emotional and total V-RQOL scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>most of the elderly women presented V-RQOL total scores between 70 and 100. They also presented a mild to moderate vocal disorder in the overall scores related to dysphonia, roughness, breathiness and instability in the GRBASI scale and did not present scores related to asthenia or strain. The G, R, B and I parameters of the GRBASI scale were statistically correlated to the physical and total V-RQOL scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>although most of the elderly women presented some level of dysphonia, the vocal disorders did not have an influence on their life quality. However, the physical and total V-RQOL scores were correlated to dysphonia severity, indicating that the more sever the dysphonia, the lower the voice-related quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":74581,"journal":{"name":"Pro-fono : revista de atualizacao cientifica","volume":"21 2","pages":"125-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s0104-56872009000200007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28326341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}