Attention and language in children with cleft lip and palate

• Autor(a) principal: Jacob, Mahyara Francini
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Tabaquim, Maria de Lourdes Merighi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/saude_desenvolvimento/article/view/1314
• topic: Attention; Language; Cleft Palate; Cleft lip; Linguagem e Neuropsicologia; Atenção; Linguagem; Fissura Palatina; Fenda labial

Objective: to characterize cognitive performance to use attention and language of children with cleft lip and palate transforamen.Method: We evaluated 22 subjects, both sexes, 08 to11 years old, with the cleft lip and palate incisor transforamen, unilateral and bilateral, repaired by the following instruments: TAVIS-3, TVIP and ENP.Results: When evaluated selective and with attention levels of alternation, bigger losses in errors per action were found out. In the field of receptive vocabulary, 82 of the sample had average results and higher than expected. When analyzed the averages regarding to the neuropsychological performances, it was found that the motor functions of the hands, upper and cutaneous sensations and kinesthetic of receptive language and arithmetic skills were tasks of largest group domain. The results were most impaired in tests of attention and cognitive functions of language, being the most impaired related to the  support of visual attention, to the cognitive-linguistic semantic functions  and the pragmatic of communication, auditory working memory and the acoustic domain-propelled in rhythmic structure.Conclusions: The cognitive skills of attention and of language profiles showed profiles below the expected for the age group, indicating limited resources interfering in the performance of important learning skills.