Voice professionals' non-verbal communication: what has it been researching in speech language pathology?
RESUMO A comunica ção não verbal é parte da comunicação e está sempre presente de maneira intencional ou não. Pode influenciar, segundo alguns autores, mais de 90% a expressividade na relação dialógica. Cada gesto, cada olhar é uma valiosa fonte de informação sobre a emoção que acontece no momento da comunicação. Como o fonoaudiólogo atua com a comunicação, para um trabalho efetivo ele deve procurar trabalhar aspectos da comunicação não verbal e verbal, sempre associados. Foi realizada uma revisão de literatura entre os anos de 2005 e 2015 nas principais revistas científicas, nacionais , da Fonoau...
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Words database for senior high school reading: E-READING III
Conclusion: E-READING III constitutes a useful resource for professionals, because, it displays a dat abase with a wide range of words to be applied in high school students. It is expected that E-READING III may enable evaluation and intervention procedures for these students concerning reading. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Speech, language and hearing sciences teleconsultations in a large public telehealth service
Conclusion: in this study, the majority of the solicitations to a Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences teleconsultation service were about language, although there was demand for all fields. Although the use of teleconsultations in Speech-Language Pathology, is still in its early stages there is great potential for using this tool in clinical practice. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Correlation between slow vital capacity and the maximum phonation time in elderly
Conclusion: with aging, breathing and voice measures may be reduced. In addition, there is an association between the slow vital capacity and maximum phonation time in older women, suggesting the influence that breathing exercises over phonation in this specific population. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Noise level measurement and its effects on hospital employees based on complaint reports
Conclusion: noise levels are above the recommended levels in different sectors and professionals manifest discomfort and tinnitus before and after their exposure. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Listening and reading comprehension and syntactic awareness in reading and writing disorders
Conclusion: these results show the importance of stimulating metasyntactic skills to reading development and the inclusion of metasyntactic tests in the reading assessment, as well as the use of related activities as a therapeutic resource. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Speech development and infant feeding: possible implications
Conclusion: the food consistency demonstrated a significant association with variables that impact on the proper physiology of the stomatognathic system, in terms of phono-articulatory organs and function performance, can be inferred that eating patterns and speech constitute a convergence point in child health. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Aesthetic face evaluation in individuals with Dentofacial Deformities
Conclusion: individuals with DDF presented alterations in their facial symmetry, nasolabial angle and skin regarding wrinkles. Facial aesthetic aspects correlated with each other as well as the nasolabial angle with forehead grooves. Age also showed a correlation with facial aesthetics. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Mastication and deglutition in obese children and adolescents
Conclusion: the obese children and adolescents studied in this research presented a higher occurrence of orofacial myofunctional changes when compared to eutrophic people in relation to tonicity and mobility of cheeks and swallowing. In this research, there was also a statistical association between the reduction of obese children and adolescents ´s cheeks tonicity and the presence of multiple swallows during swallowing. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Speech disorders related to alterations of the lingual frenulum in schoolchildren
Conclusion: the short frenulum prevailed over the other lingual frenulum alterations classifications. The research group presented statistically significant alterations when compared with the group control, in the following items: tongue tonus, low tongue posture in the oral cavity and articulation. In the other items, although there is no statistically significant difference among the groups, there was a tendency of major alteration in the research group. It was not possible to determine if alterations in phonetics speech are the same regarding the different lingual frenulum alterations. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Validity and reliability of the neonatal tongue screening test
Conclusion: the "Neonatal Tongue Screening Test" has demonstrated to be a valid and reliable assessment tool ensuring accuracy to diagnose lingual frenulum alterations in newborns. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Relation between auditory abilities in the first year of life and language diagnosis in pre-terms
Conclusion: there is a relation between alteration on the recognition of verbal commands for children aged between 12 and 18 months and the alteration in the result of language evaluation for those aged between 2 and 4 years. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Influence of factors and personal habits on the tinnitus perception
Conclusion: more than half of the subjects had bilateral tinnitus and that most situations surveyed do not cause change in the tinnitus perception to the studied people. It is noteworthy, however, that the presence of ambient noise helps to reduce the feeling of tinnitus annoyance, as well as the silence, the period of night and the anxiety contribute to accentuate it. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Self-perception of hearing disorders, habits, and hearing loss risk factors in farmers
Conclusion: as conclusion, the studied population did not have perception about hearing disorders, despite direct handling pesticides and not ever have had guidance about hearing risks in farming activity. Most of the subjects operated noise equipment and had contact to pesticides in their jobs, but they used individual protection device. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
Time-compressed speech test: adaptation and validation
Conclusion: it was possible to adapt the Time-Compressed Speech Test observing a moderate correlation between both tests and verify the applicability of the Adapted Time-Compressed Speech Test. Therefore, the adapted test needs new reference values, in other words, normality criteria are required. (Source: Revista CEFAC)
Source: Revista CEFAC - January 19, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research
