Emília de Faria Oliveira, Suelly Cecilia Olivan Limongi
{"title":"Quality of life of parents/caregivers of children and adolescents with Down syndrome.","authors":"Emília de Faria Oliveira, Suelly Cecilia Olivan Limongi","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To assess the quality of life (LQ) of parents/caregivers of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS), as well as the influence of socio-demographic aspects on the results obtained.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 31 parents/caregivers of children and adolescents with DS, divided into three groups: G1, caregivers of ten preschoolers (ages between 1 year and 5 years and 11 months); G2, caregivers of 11 school-aged children (ages between 6 years and 10 years and 11 months); and, G3, caregivers of ten pre-teens and adolescents (ages between 11 years and 15 years and 11 months). Parents/caregivers characterization: most of them were between 40 and 49 years old; high-school was the most common education level, followed by incomplete elementary school and college education; concerning the socio-economic class, most of them were from classes C and B2. The QL WHOQOL- bref protocol was administered.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eighty-four percent of the parents/caregivers rated their QL as \"good\", and 55% reported to be \"satisfied\" with their health. The lowest average score was found for the Environment domain, which was found to be correlated with socio-demographic variables \"education degree\" and \"socio-economic level\". No difference was found between groups when age ranges were compared.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results suggest that the studied population consider their QL as \"good\", and is \"satisfied\" with their health. The Environment domain and the socio-demographic variables \"education degree\" and \"socio-economic level\" are the aspects that influence their quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"321-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30375324","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}
Tânia Augusto Nascimento, Carolina Alves Ferreira de Carvalho, Adriana de Souza Batista Kida, Clara Regina Brandão de Avila
{"title":"Fluency and reading comprehension in students with reading difficulties.","authors":"Tânia Augusto Nascimento, Carolina Alves Ferreira de Carvalho, Adriana de Souza Batista Kida, Clara Regina Brandão de Avila","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To characterize the performance of students with reading difficulties in decoding and reading comprehension tasks as well as to investigate the possible correlations between them.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Sixty students (29 girls) from 3rd to 5th grades of public Elementary Schools were evaluated. Thirty students (Research Group - RG), ten from each grade, were nominated by their teachers as presenting evidences of learning disabilities. The other thirty students were indicated as good readers, and were matched by gender, age and grade to the RG, composing the Comparison Group (CG). All subjects were assessed regarding the parameters of reading fluency (rate and accuracy in words, pseudowords and text reading) and reading comprehension (reading level, number and type of ideas identified, and correct responses on multiple choice questions).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The RG presented significantly lower scores than the CG in fluency and reading comprehension. Different patterns of positive and negative correlations, from weak to excellent, among the decoding and comprehension parameters were found in both groups. In the RG, low values of reading rate and accuracy were observed, which were correlated to low scores in comprehension and improvement in decoding, but not in comprehension, with grade increase. In CG, correlation was found between different fluency parameters, but none of them was correlated to the reading comprehension variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Students with reading and writing difficulties show lower values of reading fluency and comprehension than good readers. Fluency and comprehension are correlated in the group with difficulties, showing that deficits in decoding influence reading comprehension, which does not improve with age increase.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"335-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30375326","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}
Marilia Rodrigues Freitas de Souza, Ellen Osborn, Daniela Gil, Maria Cecília Martinelli Iório
{"title":"Translation and adaptation of the ABEL: Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese.","authors":"Marilia Rodrigues Freitas de Souza, Ellen Osborn, Daniela Gil, Maria Cecília Martinelli Iório","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To translate and adapt the ABEL--Auditory Behavior in Everyday Life--questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese, and to establish the profile of auditory behavior in a group of children who use hearing aids.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The ABEL questionnaire was translated and back translated. This version was compared to the original version regarding semantic equivalence, generating a new version in Portuguese. After that, 31 parents of children fitted with hearing aids answered an anamnesis and the Portuguese version of the ABEL questionnaire. The scores obtained were related to the variables investigated in the anamnesis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Differences were found in the analysis of the aural-oral score for the variables degree of hearing loss and time of daily use of the hearing aid: children with milder degrees of hearing loss and/or children who use the hearing aid for longer periods showed better performances. There were also differences in total and auditory awareness scores for the variable time of daily use of the hearing aid, indicating that children who user their hearing aids for longer periods daily showed better performances.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was consistency between the versions generated during the translation of the questionnaire, allowing the formulation of its final version in Portuguese. Children with lower degrees of hearing loss and/or who use their hearing aids for longer periods have their daily activities less affected by the hearing loss. The ABEL questionnaire is an appropriate instrument to detail the development of auditory behaviors in children who use hearing aids.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"368-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374146","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":"Speech-Language Pathology production regarding voice in popular singing.","authors":"Lorena Badaró Drumond, Naymme Barbosa Vieira, Domingos Sávio Ferreira de Oliveira","doi":"10.1590/S2179-64912011000400017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/S2179-64912011000400017","url":null,"abstract":"PURPOSE\u0000To present a literature review about the Brazilian scientific production in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology regarding voice in popular singing in the last decade, as for number of publications, musical styles studied, focus of the researches, and instruments used for data collection.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESEARCH STRATEGY\u0000Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in two stages: search in databases and publications encompassing the last decade of researches in this area in Brazil, and reading of the material obtained for posterior categorization.\u0000\u0000\u0000SELECTION CRITERIA\u0000The databases LILACS and SciELO, the Databasis of Dissertations and Theses organized by CAPES, the online version of Acta ORL, and the online version of OPUS were searched, using the following uniterms: voice, professional voice, singing voice, dysphonia, voice disorders, voice training, music, dysodia. Articles published between the years 2000 and 2010 were selected.\u0000\u0000\u0000DATA ANALYSIS\u0000The researches found were classified and categorized after reading their abstracts and, when necessary, the whole study.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Twenty researches within the proposed theme were selected, all of which were descriptive, involving several musical styles. Twelve studies focused on the evaluation of the popular singer's voice, and the most frequently used data collection instrument was the auditory-perceptual evaluation. The results of the publications found corroborate the objectives proposed by the authors and the different methodologies.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSION\u0000The number of studies published is still restricted when compared to the diversity of musical genres and the uniqueness of popular singer.","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4 1","pages":"390-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/S2179-64912011000400017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67820077","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":"Gaps-in-Noise test: gap detection thresholds in 9-year-old normal-hearing children.","authors":"Carolina Finetti Marculino, Camila Maia Rabelo, Eliane Schochat","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To establish the standard criteria for the Gaps-in-Noise (GIN) test in 9-year-old normal-hearing children; to obtain the mean gap detection thresholds; and to verify the influence of the variables gender and ear on the gap detection thresholds.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Forty normal-hearing individuals, 20 male and 20 female, with ages ranging from 9 years to 9 years and 11 months, were evaluated. The procedures performed were: anamnesis, audiological evaluation, acoustic immittance measures (tympanometry and acoustic reflex), Dichotic Digits Test, and GIN test. The results obtained were statistically analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed similar performance of right and left ears in the population studied. There was also no difference regarding the variable gender. In the subjects evaluated, the mean gap detection thresholds were 4.4 ms for the right ear, and 4.2 ms for the left ear.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The values obtained for right and left ear, as well as their standard deviations, can be used as standard criteria for 9-year-old children, regardless of ear or gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"364-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374145","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}
Geovana de Paula Bolzan, Juliana Alves Souza, Luane de Moraes Boton, Ana Maria Toniolo da Silva, Eliane Castilhos Rodrigues Corrêa
{"title":"Facial type and head posture of nasal and mouth-breathing children.","authors":"Geovana de Paula Bolzan, Juliana Alves Souza, Luane de Moraes Boton, Ana Maria Toniolo da Silva, Eliane Castilhos Rodrigues Corrêa","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To verify the facial type and the head posture of nasal and mouth-breathing children from habitual and obstructive etiologies, as well as to correlate the morphological facial index to the head angulation position in the sagittal plane.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 59 children with ages between 8 years and 11 years and 10 months. All subjects were undergone to speech-language pathology screening, otorhinolaryngologic evaluation, and nasopharyngoscopy, allowing the constitution of three groups: nasal breathers--15 children; mouth breathers from obstructive etiology--22 children; and habitual mouth breathers--22 children. In order to determine facial type and morphological facial index, the height and the width of the face were measured using a digital caliper. The head posture was assessed through physical examination and computerized photogrammetry.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>It was verified the predominance of short face in nasal breathers, and long face in mouth breathers. There was an association among facial type and breathing mode/mouth breathing etiology: the brachyfacial type was more frequent among nasal breathers, and less frequent in subjects with obstructive nasal breathing. Head posture was similar in all three groups. No correlation was found between morphological facial index and head posture.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The brachyfacial type favors the nasal-breathing mode and the head posture is not influenced by breathing mode and by the etiology of mouth breathing, as well as it is not related to facial type.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"315-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30375323","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}
Dayane Domeneghini Didoné, Letícia Regina Kunst, Tainara Milbradt Weich, Tania Maria Tochetto, Helena Bolli Mota
{"title":"Function of the medial olivocochlear system in children with phonological disorders.","authors":"Dayane Domeneghini Didoné, Letícia Regina Kunst, Tainara Milbradt Weich, Tania Maria Tochetto, Helena Bolli Mota","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To verify whether children with phonological disorders present alterations in the medial olivocochlear system.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a prospective cross-sectional study in which 19 normal hearing children of both genders, with ages between 4 and 7 years, were divided into two groups: 11 children without phonological disorders (control group) and eight with phonological disorders (study group). The auditory condition was verified by visual examination of the external ear canal, pure tone audiometry, and tympanometry. The study included only children with hearing thresholds below or equal to 15 dB, type A tympanometry, and presence of acoustic reflexes. To evaluate the function of the medial olivocochlear system, it was carried out the evaluation of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAE) with and without contralateral white noise at 60 dBHL. Data were statistically analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The occurrence and average values of TEOAE suppression in right and left ears did not present differences in the frequencies of 1, 2, 3 and 4 kHz within groups. In the comparison of the mean and the occurrence of the suppressive effect of TEOAE between control and study groups, there was also no difference in the frequencies analyzed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Children with phonological disorders do not present alterations in the medial olivocochlear system, as evidenced by the occurrence of the suppressive effect of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"358-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374144","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":"Newborn hearing screening in infants born to HIV-seropositive mothers.","authors":"Alessandra Kerli da Silva Manfredi, Patrícia Aparecida Zuanetti, Fabíola Mishima, Raphaela Barroso Guedes Granzotti","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To analyze the otoacoustic emissions (OAE) of the newborn hearing screening of infants born to HIV-seropositive mothers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>It was carried out the Transient-Evoked OAE and the research of cochleopalpebral reflex in 247 full-term newborns with no risk factors for hearing. The Control Group (CG) comprised 167 infants, and the Research Group (RG), 80 infants that had been exposed to HIV during gestation. It was considered \"failure\" when the newborn had absence of TOAE in at least one ear. Data were statistically analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the, Eight infants (10%) from the Research Group and seven (4.2%) from the Control Group failed in the newborn hearing screening (p=0.09). Retest of the infants who failed showed persistence of the absence of OAE in one subject (12.5%) from the Research Group and two (28.6%) from the Control Group (p=0.6). Cochleopalpebral reflex was present in all subjects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was no association between the absence of TOAE and the newborn's HIV exposure during gestation.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"376-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374147","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":"Auditory processing in unilateral hearing loss: case report.","authors":"Karina Krähembühl Salvador, Tatiane Cristina Pereira, Tamyne Ferreira Duarte de Moraes, Mariana Sodário Cruz, Mariza Ribeiro Feniman","doi":"10.1590/s2179-64912011000400015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unilateral hearing loss represents great risk to academic backwardness, communication, social development, and also to auditory processing. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the auditory abilities of localization, closing, figure-ground, temporal resolution, and simple temporal ordering in a male 17-year-old individual diagnosed with profound unilateral sensorineural hearing loss of idiopathic etiology, without other alterations. The evaluation process consisted on the application of a checklist, and the conduction of conventional clinical audiological evaluation (pure-tone audiometry, logoaudiometry, and tympanometry), and of monotic (ipsilateral SSI, Filtered speech test) and diotic (Sound localization, Auditory memory for verbal and non-verbal sounds, AFT-R) auditory processing test. Results showed alteration only in the sound localization test. No complaints were reported regarding the abilities of sound localization, attention, discrimination, and comprehension. In this case study, the profound unilateral sensorineural hearing loss did not seem to restrict the development of the auditory processing abilities evaluated, except for the localization of the sound source.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"381-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1590/s2179-64912011000400015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374148","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":"Speech-Language Pathology production regarding voice in popular singing.","authors":"Lorena Badaró Drumond, Naymme Barbosa Vieira, Domingos Sávio Ferreira de Oliveira","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To present a literature review about the Brazilian scientific production in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology regarding voice in popular singing in the last decade, as for number of publications, musical styles studied, focus of the researches, and instruments used for data collection.</p><p><strong>Research strategy: </strong>Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out in two stages: search in databases and publications encompassing the last decade of researches in this area in Brazil, and reading of the material obtained for posterior categorization.</p><p><strong>Selection criteria: </strong>The databases LILACS and SciELO, the Databasis of Dissertations and Theses organized by CAPES, the online version of Acta ORL, and the online version of OPUS were searched, using the following uniterms: voice, professional voice, singing voice, dysphonia, voice disorders, voice training, music, dysodia. Articles published between the years 2000 and 2010 were selected.</p><p><strong>Data analysis: </strong>The researches found were classified and categorized after reading their abstracts and, when necessary, the whole study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty researches within the proposed theme were selected, all of which were descriptive, involving several musical styles. Twelve studies focused on the evaluation of the popular singer's voice, and the most frequently used data collection instrument was the auditory-perceptual evaluation. The results of the publications found corroborate the objectives proposed by the authors and the different methodologies.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The number of studies published is still restricted when compared to the diversity of musical genres and the uniqueness of popular singer.</p>","PeriodicalId":89403,"journal":{"name":"Jornal da Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia","volume":"23 4","pages":"390-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30374584","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}