Preschool preterm infants’ oral language assessment instruments: a literature review
RESUMO A prematuridade é considerada um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento global de crianças, sobretudo da linguagem falada. O presente estudo teve como objetivo apresentar uma revisão bibliográfica sobre instrumentos de avaliação da linguagem falada de pré-escolares nascidos prematuros, utilizados em investiga ções científicas em âmbito nacional, e destacar os resultados dessas avaliações. Onze artigos foram selecionados, os quais utilizaram 8 instrumentos para a avaliação de habilidades relacionadas à linguagem falada de pré-escolares nascidos prematuros. Destes 8 instrumentos, 6 são internaci onais...
Source: Revista CEFAC - March 14, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Characterization of tongue strength via objective measures
Conclusion: the instrument proved to be capable of measuring parameters that are important to the speech-language pathologist, indicating that it can be a promising complementary tool for clinical evaluation. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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The influence of implant-supported dentures on the nutritional status of elderly individuals
Conclusion: therefore, the placement of implant-supported complete dentures in the elderly individuals investigated in this study did not modify the nutritional condition in the short term, suggests that the subjects maintained the previous dietary characteristics. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Amplitude and speed of masticatory movements in patients with Parkinson's disease
Conclusion: the elderly group e xceeded the means, in the mandibular movement during chewing, of the rigid group of parkinsonians. We may conclude that factors such as parkinsonian stiffness are likely to compromise the chewing of individuals with Parkinson's disease. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Anthropometric orofacial measurements of children according to facial type
Conclusion: as expected, analyses of all the results, considering sex or not, found lower anthropometric orofacial measurements in brachyfacial individuals, which was most evident in measurements related to the lower vertical plane. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - March 14, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Use of transcranial radiograph to detect morphological changes in mandibular condyles
Conclusion: the use of TRANS proved to be an effective method to detect morphological changes in the mandibular condyle. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Social representation of speech therapists’ ethos in the metropolitan and Valparaiso regions of Chile
Conclusion: for Speech Therapy to become part of the bioethical discussion and have its own ethic discourse it is necessary to continue developing the reflective practice in order to strengthen the professional ethos. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Temporal resolution and cortical potential in different levels of English proficiency
Conclusion: there were significant differences in temporal resolution ability, better for students in advanced level of English and also to the latency of evoked cortical N1 with higher values for students at a basic level. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Cognitive language performance of children with cleft lip and palate in reading and writing acquisition phase
Conclusion: the language skills necessary for reading and writing acquisition proved to be deficient in the cleft lip and palate population, presenting levels of cognitive performance lower than expected for the age and education in most of the modalities evaluated. Limiting environmental factors and low socio-cultural status of the sample were suggestive of additional interference to the acquisition of cognitive-linguistic pre-skills necessary for satisfactory performance of the academic tasks, such as reading and writing. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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Performance of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in metalinguistic skills, reading and reading comprehension
Conclusion: students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder presented inferior performance in relation to reading protocol and in more complex metalinguistic skills, which required retention, analysis and information retrieval, when compared to the control group. In regard to reading comprehension, both groups presented lower performance, with similar results. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
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INTERNATIONAL OROFACIAL MOTRICITY DAY “Tongue-tie, affected orofacial functions”
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Editorial
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Favorable stimulus words for the treatment of phonological disorders involving the production of simple onset sounds
Conclusion: the algorithm was efficient in calculating favorability scores for the target words. However, although words classified as favorable, or those with high scores on linguistic measures, should be preferred during the selection of target stimuli, these may not necessarily apply to all types of phonological disorder. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Speech therapy with phonation into tubes in a patient with vocal fold paralysis surgically medialized: a case study
RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar as modifica ções vocais perceptivo-auditivas e acústicas ocorridas após um método de fonoterapia breve usando três modalidades de fonação em tubos em um sujeito do gênero masculino com paralisia unilateral de prega vocal medializada cirurgicamente. Paciente do gênero masculino, 29 anos e um mês de id ade, com diagnóstico otorrinolaringológico de paralisia de prega vocal esquerda em abdução e encaminhado para cirurgia de medialização da prega vocal esquerda (Tiroplastia tipo I) e fonoterapia. Foram realizadas cinco coletas da emissão da vogal /a:/ em momentos di...
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Vocal warm-up and cool-down: systematic review
RESUMO Esta revis ão da literatura levantou publicações científicas nacionais e internacionais sobre aquecimento e desaquecimento vocais da voz falada, por meio das bases de dados Lilacs, MedLine e Scielo, com o objetivo de identificar e descrever os parâmetros metodológicos e os efeitos das propostas de aqueci mento e desaquecimento vocal descritas na literatura nacional e internacional. Foi realizada a localização e seleção dos estudos por meio de levantamento de textos publicados sobre o assunto no período de 1999 a 2013. Foram incluídos artigos originais de pesquisa; publicados na língua portugu esa ou ing...
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
