Oral communication and auditory skills of hearing impaired children and adolescents and the speech therapy rehabilitation process
Conclusion: there was a significant impact on the development of oral communication when the period elapsed between the diagnosis and intervention was analyzed, in such way that the faster the intervention time, the better the results. It was also evident that the earlier the beginning of the use of cochlear implants, the greater the hearing age, and the longer the rehabilitation period, the better the scores in the procedures that evaluated auditory and verbal development.RESUMO Objetivo: analisar os comportamentos auditivos e de comunica ção oral em um grupo de crianças e adolescentes usuários de implante coclear e ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - September 4, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Proposal for an augmentative and alternative communication conversational analysis protocol
Conclusion: this study showed the development and creation of a conversation evaluation protocol for children with cerebral palsy and their interlocutors. It can be used to evaluate the means, the communicative acts and adjacent-pairs observed in conversational contexts, leading the initial clinical speech language and hearing assessment process to the introduction, maintenance and general use of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication with different interlocutors and environments.RESUMO Objetivo: propor um protocolo para avalia ção da comunicação que contemple a análise conversacional de crianças com encefal...
Source: Revista CEFAC - September 4, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Insalubrity in speech therapy and audiology: a brief review
Conclusion: speech therapists and audiologists as well as several other health professionals present occupational risks in their work. The Brazilian legislation is broad, however, it is necessary to analyze these professionals more deeply with regard to their health.RESUMO Objetivo: expor em uma breve discuss ão as questões sobre a insalubridade pertinentes a atuação do fonoaudiólogo. Métodos: foi realizada uma revisão do Portal da Legislação do Governo Federal Brasileiro no que diz respeito às leis trabalhistas, a insalubridade e aos profissionais de saúde. Foram utilizados também, cartilha s e recomendaçõ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - September 4, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Hospital cognitive screening of patients with no related complaints
Conclusion: the data demonstrated that cognitive screening in hospitalized patients without related complaints is important, and that age and education are paramount factors in cognitive performance.RESUMO Objetivos: caracterizar o desempenho cognitivo de adultos e idosos hospitalizados, sem queixas, considerando o efeito da escolaridade e da idade, e correlacionar os resultados encontrados. M étodos: foi realizado rastreio cognitivo por meio do Miniexame do Estado Mental (MEM) e do Teste de Fluência Verbal, semântica (FVS) e fonológica (FVF), em 25 adultos e idosos sem queixas de alterações cognitivas internados e...
Source: Revista CEFAC - September 4, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial
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Erratum
This study aimed to perform a literature review about the vocal doses and the behavior of these measurements in different communicative situations. A review on MEDLINE, LILACS, IBECS and ISI Web of Science databases of the literature written in English, Spanish and Portuguese, within the past twenty-one years, of articles which were fully available, was performed. Fifteen studies met the set criteria. The majority of the articles studied teachers, since they belong to a vulnerable group for dysphonia. The doses found were phonation percentage, time dose, cycle dose, distance dose, energy dissipation dose and radiated energ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Vocal dose: an integrative literature review
This study aimed to perform a literature review about the vocal doses and the behavior of these measurements in different communicative situations. A review on MEDLINE, LILACS, IBECS and ISI Web of Science databases of the literature written in English, Spanish and Portuguese, within the past twenty-one years, of articles which were fully available, was performed. Fifteen studies met the set criteria. The majority of the articles studied teachers, since they belong to a vulnerable group for dysphonia. The doses found were phonation percentage, time dose, cycle dose, distance dose, energy dissipation dose and radiated energ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Animal models for hearing evaluations: a literature review
RESUMO O objetivo dessa revis ão é delinear os modelos animais viáveis para a pesquisa pré-clÃnica auditiva, considerando suas caracterÃsticas anatômicas, fisiológicas, vantagens e desvantagens. Foram consultadas as bases de dados Scielo, Pubmed e Periódicos Capes, utilizando descritores envolvendo audição, testes aud itivos e espécies animais, individualmente e cruzados entre si. Foram lidos os resumos dos artigos encontrados nas bases de dados, com posterior seleção baseada nos critérios: artigos disponÃveis em sua integridade, uso de modelos animais em procedimentos audiológicos que incluÃsse a descriÃ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The hearing of smokers: a review
RESUMO Dentre os fatores que influenciam o aparecimento de altera ções auditivas pode-se citar o tabagismo, já que estudos revelam que o uso do tabaco pode causar um efeito ototóxico na audição. O objetivo do presente estudo foi analisar as produções cientÃficas sobre o efeito do cigarro no sistema auditivo. A metodologia constou de levantamento dos perió dicos indexados nas bases de dados, e foram incluÃdos na revisão de literatura os artigos cientÃficos nacionais e internacionais, publicados em lÃngua portuguesa ou inglesa, entre os anos de 2009 a 2016. Posteriormente a seleção e análise dos artigos na Ã...
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Main difficulties and obstacles faced by the deaf community in health access: an integrative literature review
RESUMO Buscou-se identificar na literatura os principais obst áculos e dificuldades enfrentadas por pessoas surdas quanto ao acesso à saúde. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa de literatura, considerando estudos publicados entre 2006 e 2016, utilizando combinações de descritores controlados. As bases de dados virtuais utilizadas foram: LILACS, PUBMED e SciELO, incluindo artigos publicados em Inglês, Português e Espanhol. A amostra final foi composta por 24 artigos, selecionados após análise dos tÃtulos, resumos e textos na Ãntegra. Os estudos selecionados foram categorizados quanto à s principais temáticas e ...
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Investigation of maternal practices of breastfeeding and their relation with the infection of the upper airways and otitis media
Conclusion: the practices of mothers during breast-feeding and infant ’ s position are not related to infection of the upper airways and otitis media. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Association between continuous use drugs and dizziness in institutionalized elderly people
Conclusion: dizziness in these institutionalized elderly people was associated with the chronic use of anti-epileptics and diuretic drugs. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Telespeech therapy as a continued education strategy in primary health care in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil
Conclusions: the implementation of telespeech therapy in Pernambuco began by training the team, planning, offering and evaluating the actions of tele-education, focused on the health issue of human communication. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Effects of the exercise of the semi-occluded vocal tract with a commercial straw in the teachers’ voice
Conclusion: exercise with a commercial straw promoted improvement in the teachers ’ voices and self-reported beneficial effects and can be used as a protective measure. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Acoustic analysis of swallowing time through Doppler Sonar
Conclusion: a change in swallowing time was observed both in relation to the consistency and the volume of the food bolus when the elderly and adult subjects were compared. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - July 14, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
