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Writing language and subjective quality: implications of group work

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the speech language therapy group was built as a place where the individuals could set up a significant relation with reading and writing, providing key conditions for the re-significance of the symptoms and for interacting with different written texts, promoting thus changes between the individual and his own language. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Using the gesture in autism: case report

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: improvement was verified in gestural quality in this case report. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Comfort and phonation with new generation of individualized lingual orthodontics brackets

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the literature currently supports that the latest generation of lingual individualized brackets provides greater comfort and speech easiness when compared to the traditional lingual technique brackets. However, success in therapy requires detailed guidelines on the potential for restriction of the oral comfort, word articulation, chewing and oral hygiene, regardless of the bracket system to be used. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Herpes and its hearing implications: a literature review

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the studied herpetic viruses show strict relation with hearing disorders, regardless of the age in which the patient is affected. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

The use of portfolio in Speech and Language Pathology undergraduate education from the perspective of comprehensive training

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the findings demonstrate the portfolio as an important tool in an ongoing reflective evaluation. There were changes about the initial impressions the undergraduates brought with them, as to their expectations and knowledge on SLP. This instrument contributes for defining the choice of profession, in some cases, and encourages the perception about the role of other disciplines, common doubts among students at this graduation period. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Auto-perception of auditory and vestibular health in workers exposed to organophosphate

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: dizziness and hearing loss are a constant and subclinical symptoms in occupational exposure suggesting a precocious intoxication signal, harming the quality of life of these workers. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Study of equivalence among the lists of sentences in Portuguese

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: it was observed that in the application of the test Lists of Sentences in Portuguese, through earphones, both under silence as well as under noise, similar results were obtained in the lists 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B and 6B, showing equivalence among the lists. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Comparative of verbal language analysis of listeners children and deaf children with cochlear implant

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the results of the deaf children using cochlear implants were inferiors yours pairs listeners. The deaf children who showed the biggest punctuations were the ones with shorter time of hearing sense deprivation and longer time using the cochlear implant. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Distortion product evoked otoacoustic emissions study with individuals of a fitness gym

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: this study shows that individuals exposed to electronic amplified music, may have hearing loss complaints and have signs of such loss. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Auditory assessment in the school-age children

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: hearing screening is an effective way to determine the adequate conduct to be adopted with schoolchildren regarding peripheral hearing loss and/or hearing abilities. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Voice and temporomandibular joint disorders in teachers

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the results point towards confirming the presence of TMJ and vocal disorders in the group of teachers in this research, as well as positive correlations between these two disorders. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

The use of cervical auscultation in tracheal aspiration in children with cerebral palsy

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: cervical auscultation can be used as an inference to risk of aspiration, therefore a sign to early intervention in this population. Furthermore, it is a non-invasive method. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Swallowing of oral and nose breathers: speech-language and electromyography assessment

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

OBJETIVO: avaliar e comparar a deglutição de sujeitos respiradores orais e nasais, por meio da avaliação clínica e eletromiográfica dos músculos orbiculares orais, superior e inferior. MÉTODOS: participaram deste estudo 16 sujeitos na faixa etária de 6:8 a 10:10 distribuídos em dois grupos, um de respiradores orais e outro de respiradores nasais. Foram submetidos à avaliação clínica fonoaudiológica e eletromiográfica de superfície. O exame fonoaudiológico contemplou as estruturas e funções do sistema estomatognático, e a avaliação eletromiográfica consistiu na captação da atividade elétrica dos músculos orbiculares orais, superior e inferior, durante as situações de isometria e de deglutição. Da avaliação clínica consideraram-se somente os resultados refe...

Symptoms and signs of mouth breathing in teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and with complaints about school underachievement

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the possibility of simultaneous existence of Mouth Breathing on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and complaints about school underachievement requires a deeper diagnostic investigation. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Autism: a study on communicative abilities in children

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: It was possible to verify that the studied children used functional communication forms in different situational contexts, verbal and non-verbal skills, aspects considered essential to the proposition of resources in speech therapy intervention. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Longitudinal study of joint attention in non-verbal autistic children

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: the gaze behavior is an important step for the development of others behaviors toward Joint Attention. The adult-child interaction situation facilitates the appearance of communication behaviors and sharing. Language therapy with focus on the Joint Attention abilities seems to contribute positively for communication development of autistic children. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Pragmatic ability and Down's Syndrome

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the verbal and gestural communication means and the comment and narrative functions were the most used among the participants; mothers were responsible for just 10% of the communication direction and it was carried out predominantly by the children and adolescents that took part in the study. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Performance by task in phonological awareness: gender, age and severity of phonological disorder

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the oldest children showed better performance in the phonological awareness-related tasks. Segmentation tasks showed a tendency for difference among the degrees of phonological disorder to be investigated in future studies. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Phonological awareness and awareness of the own speech impairment in different severity levels of phonological disorder

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: a possible relation was identified between the performance in the phonological awareness tasks and the different severity levels of phonological disorder, mainly in a qualitative approach. The awareness of their own speech impairment also seems to be influenced by the different severity levels of phonological disorder, mainly in a quantitative approach. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Verbal and non-verbal praxic abilities in stutterers

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

CONCLUSION: the adult stutterers showed a significantly higher number of typical and atypical disfluencies than non-stutterers (verbal praxis). Stutterers do not differ from non-stutterers in their non-verbal praxic abilities. This finding contradicts those who believe that early stuttering affects non-verbal praxis. (Source: Revista CEFAC)

Editorial II

Revista CEFAC — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:58:09 +0100

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Editorial I

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Electromyography as an aid in therapeutic behavior after fronto-temporal craniotomy surgery: case report