Linguagem expressiva de crianças nascidas pré-termo e termo aos dois anos de idade

• Autor(a) principal: Isotani, Selma Mie
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Azevedo, Marisa Frasson de [UNIFESP], Chiari, Brasilia Maria [UNIFESP], Perissinoto, Jacy [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-56872009000200012; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/5071
• topic: Premature Infant; Language Development Disorders; Language Tests; Prematuro; Transtornos do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem; Testes de Linguagem

BACKGROUND: expressive language of pre-term children. AIM: to compare the expressive vocabulary of two year-old children born prematurely, to that of those born at term. METHODS: the study sample was composed by 118 speech-language assessment protocols, divided in two groups: the pre-term group (PTG) composed by 58 underweight premature children followed by a multi-professional team at the Casa do Prematuro (House of Premature Children) at UNIFESP, and the full-term group (FTG) composed by 60 full-term born children. In order to evaluate the expressive language of these children, the Lave - Lista de Avaliação do Vocabulário Expressivo (Assessment List of the Expressive Vocabulary) was used. The Lave is an adaptation of the LDS - Language Development Survey - for the Brazilian Portuguese Language. The Lave investigates the expressive language and detects delays in oral language. RESULTS: children born underweight and prematurely present a greater occurrence of expressive language delay, 27.6%. These pre-term children present significantly lower expressive vocabulary and phrasal extension than children of the same age born at full-term in all semantic categories. Family income proved to be positively associated to phrasal extension, as well as to gestational age and weight at birth; thus indicating the effect of these adverse conditions still during the third year of age. The audiological status was associated to word utterances in the PTG. CONCLUSION: children born prematurely and underweight are at risk in terms of vocabulary development; this determines the need for speech-therapy intervention programs.