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OBJECTIVE: Normative data were established for newly developed speech materials for nasalance assessment in Brazilian Portuguese. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Nasalance scores of preexisting passages (oral ZOO-BR, low-pressure oral ZOO-BR2 and NASAL-BR), new nasalance passages (oral Dudu no zoológico, oral Dudu no bosque, oral-nasal O cãozinho Totó and nasal O nenê) and Brasilcleft articulation screening sentences were collected from 245 speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, including 121 males and 124 females, divided into 4 groups: children (5-9 years), adolescents (10-19 years), young adults (20-24 years) and adults (25-35 years). RESULTS: Across all nasalance passages, adult females scored on average 2 percentage points higher than males. Children scored 2-4 percentage points lower than older groups for the preexisting nasalance passages ZOO-BR and ZOO-BR2. Nasalance scores for the new nasalance passages were not significantly different from the preexisting passages. Scores for high-pressure sentences did not differ significantly from the oral nasalance passage Dudu no bosque. CONCLUSION: The nasalance scores for the new nasalance passages were equivalent to the preexisting materials. The new shortened and simplified nasalance passages will be useful for assessing young children. Normative scores for the Brasilcleft high-pressure sentences were equivalent to the new oral passage Dudu no bosque.
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Articulation Disorders/diagnosis , Cleft Palate/diagnosis , Language , Phonetics , Sound Spectrography , Speech Acoustics , Speech Disorders/diagnosis , Speech Production Measurement , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Articulation Disorders/classification , Brazil , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Reference Values , Sex Factors , Speech Disorders/classification , Young AdultABSTRACT
TEMA: distúrbio Fonológico. OBJETIVO: aplicar o índice de gravidade de Porcentagem de Consoantes Corretas (PCC) e verificar a correlação entre este índice e o aplicado perceptivamente pelos juízes. MÉTODO: calculou-se o índice de gravidade PCC de 50 sujeitos diagnosticados com distúrbio fonológico, após 60 juízes ouviram as provas de fonologia de cada sujeito e julgaram perceptivamente a gravidade. RESULTADO: o índice PCC aplicado aos sujeitos obteve uma variação entre 40 por cento e 98 por cento, com uma classificação predominante da população nos graus leve e levemente moderado. CONCLUSÃO: existe correlação entre o julgamento perceptivo dos juizes e os valores do índice PCC.
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Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Articulation Disorders/classification , Language Development Disorders/classification , Speech Articulation Tests , Speech Perception/physiology , Analysis of Variance , Articulation Disorders/diagnosis , Judgment , Language Development Disorders/diagnosis , Severity of Illness IndexABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Working memory. AIM: To verify the performance of working memory abilities and their relation with the severity of phonological disorders. METHOD: 45 children, with ages between 5.0 and 7.11 years, with evolutional phonological disorders (EFD), 17 female and 18 male, were evaluated. All subjects were assessed using the Child Phonological Evaluation proposed by Yavas et al. (1991). The severity of the disorder was determined by the Percentage of Correct Consonants (PCC) proposed by Shriberg and Kwiatkowski (1982), classifying the phonological disorder as severe, moderate-severe, average-moderate and average. After that, subtest 5 of the Psycholinguistic Abilities Test (ITPA--Bogossian & Santos, 1977) and the non-word repetition test (Kessler, 1997) were applied. RESULTS: After analyzing the data according the statistical tests of Kruskal Wallis and Duncan, it was verified that the performance of moderate-severe and severe individuals in the non-word repetition test was inferior to that of average-moderate and average individuals. However, performance results in the digit repetition test did not present a positive correlation with severity. CONCLUSION: The performance of phonological memory has a relation with the severity of phonological disorders. This allows us to accept the idea that the phonologic memory is related to speech production. Regarding the central executor, the results indicate that the performance in digit repetition, used to assess the central executor, did not present a correlation with the severity of the disorder. This can be justified by the fact that the central executor is more directly related to vocabulary acquisition and is responsible for processing and storing information.
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Articulation Disorders/diagnosis , Language Development , Memory/physiology , Phonetics , Speech Perception , Analysis of Variance , Articulation Disorders/classification , Articulation Disorders/physiopathology , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Language Tests , Male , Severity of Illness Index , Speech Production Measurement , Statistics, NonparametricABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Phonological disorder. AIM: To apply the percentage of correct consonant (PCC) index and to verify the correlation between this index and the one applied perceptually by judges. METHOD: The PCC index of 50 phonological disordered subjects was calculated, after 60 judges heard the phonological tests for each subject and perceptually attributed the severity. RESULTS: The PCC index varied from 40% to 98%, with the predominant classification of the population in the mild and mild-moderate levels. CONCLUSION: A correlation between the perceptual judgment and the PCC indexes exists.
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Articulation Disorders/classification , Language Development Disorders/classification , Speech Articulation Tests , Speech Perception/physiology , Analysis of Variance , Articulation Disorders/diagnosis , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Judgment , Language Development Disorders/diagnosis , Severity of Illness IndexABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Phonological disorder. AIM: To analyze the severity descriptors used by graduation students of the Speech-Language Communication Sciences and Speech-Language Pathologists to classify the phonological disorder. METHOD: 60 judges classified the speech of 50 phonological disordered children regarding the severity of the disorder, after listening to their speech samples. RESULTS: The most used and applied severity descriptors, to justify the severity of the disorder, were: phonology, age, intelligibility, voice and speech. CONCLUSION: The judges used similar criteria in the perceptual judgment of the severity.
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Articulation Disorders/classification , Severity of Illness Index , Analysis of Variance , Articulation Disorders/diagnosis , Child , Child, Preschool , Humans , Speech Intelligibility/classificationABSTRACT
Tema: Distúrbio fonológico. Objetivo: analisar os descritores da gravidade usados por alunos de Fonoaudiologia e fonoaudiólogos para classificar o distúrbio fonológico. Método: participaram 60 juízes com função de atribuir critérios para enquadramento de 50 sujeitos com distúrbio fonológico nas categorias de gravidade, após ouvirem suas amostras de fala. Resultados: os descritores de gravidade mais usados pelos juízes e mais aplicados aos sujeitos para justificarem o grau de gravidade foram: fonologia, idade, inteligibilidade, voz e fala. Conclusão: os juízes usaram critérios semelhantes no julgamento perceptivo da gravidade.