Neuropsychological aspects of 10-year-old children

• Autor(a) principal: Osborn, Ellen [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Liliane Desgualdo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1679-45082012000400007; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/7463
• topic: Language tests; Comprehension; Visual perception; Space perception; Child; Testes de linguagem; Compreensão; Percepção visual; Percepção espacial; Criança

OBJECTIVE: To characterize neuropsychological aspects of 10-yearold children. METHOD: Out of 30 children, 26 cognitively normal 10-year-old public school students answered tests extracted from Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children's Revision. The study was transversal. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were carried out. RESULTS: Most of the 10-year-old children retold a story (69.2%), understood it making correct inference (84.6%) and reproduced it adequately in writing (76.9%) - 14.9% was the average number of incorrectly written words and 0.179 was the errors per written word coefficient. Besides, 53.8% showed logical thought process and 73.1% had a correct notion of x more than.... They got five out of eight in the visuo-spatial test, an intermediary result. These results show that the tertiary areas of units II and III are developed in most 10-year-old children. The most frequent types of written mistakes were: oral influence (26.3%), multiple representation (22.5%) and omission (18.4%). As to coding principles, the mostly uncomplied with rule was vowel nasalization at end of syllable (23,53%). CONCLUSIONS: Ten-year-old children in the studied population understood and reproduced a story orally and in writing with a low coefficient error/word. The majority completed the visuospatial tests and presented logical thought process. When x more than... notion is absent it may be an indicator that all is not well in the reading/writing process.