[Speech and language disorders in children from public schools in Belo Horizonte]. / Alterações fonoaudiológicas em crianças de escolas públicas em Belo Horizonte.
Rev Paul Pediatr
; 33(4): 453-9, 2015 Dec.
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of oral language, orofacial motor skill and auditory processing disorders in children aged 4-10 years old and verify their association with age and gender. METHODS: Cross-sectional study with stratified, random sample consisting of 539 students. The evaluation consisted of three protocols: orofacial motor skill protocol, adapted from the Myofunctional Evaluation Guidelines; the Child Language Test ABFW--Phonology, and a simplified auditory processing evaluation. Descriptive and associative statistical analyses were performed using Epi Info software, release 6.04. Chi-square test was applied to compare proportion of events and analysis of variance was used to compare mean values. Significance was set at p≤0.05. RESULTS: Of the studied subjects, 50.1% had at least one of the assessed disorders; of those, 33.6% had oral language disorder, 17.1%, had orofacial motor skill impairment, and 27.3% had auditory processing disorder. There were significant associations between auditory processing skills' impairment, oral language impairment and age, suggesting a decrease in the number of disorders with increasing age. Similarly, the variable "one or more speech, language and hearing disorders" was also associated with age. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of speech, language and hearing disorders in children was high, indicating the need for research and public health efforts to cope with this problem.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Instituições Acadêmicas
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Distúrbios da Fala
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Setor Público
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Transtornos da Linguagem
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
Pt
Revista:
Rev Paul Pediatr
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Brasil