Estudo do olhar com intenção comunicativa e vocabulário receptivo de meninas com síndrome de Rett através do instrumento Eyegaze®

• Autor(a) principal: Amorosino, Cristiane
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/22644
• topic: Síndrome de Rett; vocabulário receptivo; comunicação; Eyegaze®; Rett Syndrome; receptive vocabulary; communication; Eyegaze®; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA::CLINICA MEDICA

The Syndrome of Rett (SR.) was described for the first time for Andreas Rett(1966). It is characterized for a neurobiologic clutter that affects the femile sex preferentially. Its cause is due to a genetic alteration to the chromosome X. Due to the complex scenario its verbal comunication and gestual are damaged in, many times when inexistent, it causes serious difficulties the social development, cognitive and emotional these girls. Even thought the high number of investigation in this area, the comunicative potential is still a doubt and is still a big challenge for education professionals relatives and health professional. The objective of this study is to prove the comunicative intensional look and evoluate receptive vocabulary. The were 14 patients studied that belong to the classic form of Rett Syndrome classified in III & IV stage of evolution of the syndrome and filedit at Associação Brasileira de Síndrome de Rett de São Paulo (ABRE-TE/SP). The equipament used on it was Eyegaze®, that evaluates and registers the visual scanning of an individual facing a visual stimulous at the screen projeited. The instruments of evolution where: Vocabulary Test per Peabody images TVIP computorized and its variation of a receptive vocabulary test with colorful pictures TVRF colorful. One Way ANOVAS reveled significant differences in the numbers of correct itens at TVIP (F]5,33]= 44,761; p<0,0000) and at TVRF (F]5,33]= 28,3131; p<0,0000) according to the age. Analyses post hoc Bonferroni has shown that there are no diference between girls with SR and the controls of 2 and 3 years old; even thougth the average age were significantly bigger than those normal children that have obtained close assertivy results in those two version of the vocabulary test. The Rett gerts who have obtaind the worst perforface at TVIP were exactly the youngest. Besides that the number of correct itens at TVRF were bigger than observed at TVIP. Such data to suggest the usage of pictures to those girls have better effect to evoluate the vocabulary of those simple drawing, such as from TVIP. The evidenced the glance with communicative intention and also demonstrated tha thouse girls receptive vocabulary can be evaluates twrough the instrument computerized TVIP and its variation of TVRF.