Personal narratives make up more than half of children’s conversations. The ability to share personal narratives helps build and maintain friendships, promotes physical and emotional wellbeing, supports classroom participation, and underpins academic success and vocational outcomes. Although personal narratives are a universal discourse genre, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research into children’s ability to share personal narratives is in its infancy. The current study addresses this gap in the research by developing the Global TALES protocol, a protocol comprising six scripted prompts for eliciting personal narratives in school-age children (excited, worried, annoyed, proud, problem situation, something important). We evaluated its feasibility with 249 ten-year-old children from 10 different countries, speaking 8 different languages, and analyzed researchers’ views on the process of adapting the protocol for use in their own country/language. At group-level, the protocol elicited discourse samples from all children, although individual variability was evident, with most children providing responses to all six prompts. When investigating the topics of children’s personal narratives in response to the prompts, we found that children from around the world share many commonalities regarding topics of conversation. Once again individual variability was high, indicating the protocol is effective in prompting children to share their past personal experiences without forcing them to focus on one particular topic. Feedback from the participating researchers on the use of the protocol in their own countries was generally positive, although several translation issues were noted. Based on our results, we now invite clinical researchers from around the world to join us in conducting further research into this important area of practice to obtain a better understanding of the development of personal narratives from children across different languages and cultures and to begin to establish local benchmarks of performance.

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Background: the use of anthroposcopy in the assessment of posture and morphology of the stomatognathic system of mouth breathing children. Aim: to describe the postural and morphologic characteristics of the stomatognathic system of mouth breathing children, according to age. Method: participants were 100 children, of both genders, with ages ranging from 7 to 11 years and 11 months, leukoderms, in mixed dentition and with the diagnosis of mouth breathing. The investigated postural and morphologic characteristics of the stomatognathic system were labial and lingual resting position, possibility of labial occlusion, hyperfunction of the mentalis muscle during labial occlusion, bite and morphology of the lower lip, cheeks and hard palate, using the anthroposcopy methodology. Results: the results referring to the characterization of the studied population, according to the most frequent otorhinolaryngologic diagnosis, was of enlarged pharyngeal and palatine tonsils. A statistically significant difference was found between the percentages of each otorhinolaryngologic diagnosis, according to age. The results of the characteristics of the stomatognathic system indicated that the most common aspects in the studied sample were: half-open lips when in the resting position, tongue lowered on the mouth's floor in the resting position, possibility of labial occlusion, hyperfunction of the mentalis muscle during labial occlusion, alterations of bite, labioverted, symmetry of the cheeks and alteration of the hard palate. All of the studied characteristics presented the same frequency with the increase in age, with no statistically significant difference. Conclusion: mouth breathing children presented pathologic adaptations in the postural and morphological characteristics of the stomatognathic system. This suggests the importance of early diagnosis in order to avoid orofacial alterations. Key Words: Face; Stomatognathic System; Child; Mouth Breathing. ResumoTema: a utilização da antroposcopia na avaliação das características posturais e morfológicas do sistema estomatognático de crianças respiradoras orais. Objetivo: descrever as características posturais e morfológicas do sistema estomatognático de crianças respiradoras orais, segundo a idade. Método: Participaram 100 crianças, de ambos os sexos, com idades entre 7 anos e 11 anos e 11 meses, leucodermas, em dentição mista e com diagnóstico de respiração oral. As características posturais e morfológicas do sistema estomatognático pesquisadas foram posição habitual de lábios e de língua, possibilidade de vedamento labial, hiperfunção do músculo mentual durante a oclusão labial, mordida e morfologia do lábio inferior, das bochechas e do palato duro, por meio da antroposcopia. Resultados: no que se refere à caracterização da população do estudo segundo o diagnóstico otorrinolaringológico principal, tem-se que foi mais freqüente o aumento de tonsila faríngea e de tonsilas palatinas. Não foi encontrada diferença estatisticamente significativa entre as porcentagens de cada d...

OBJETIVO: Avaliar a qualidade de vida dos cuidadores de crianças incluídas no espectro autístico e determinar se há algum tipo de relação entre os diferentes domínios e aspectos demográficos como escolaridade e classe social. MÉTODOS: Foram sujeitos 150 cuidadores de crianças pertencentes ao espectro autístico, com idades entre 24 e 65 anos, os quais responderam as questões feitas por meio do instrumento de avaliação da qualidade de vida WHOQOL-bref, elaborado pelo Programa de Saúde Mental da Organização Mundial de Saúde, composto de 26 questões, divididas em quatro domínios (Físico, Psicológico, Relações Sociais, e Meio Ambiente). RESULTADOS: Os dados revelaram diferenças significantes entre todos os domínios. O único domínio do questionário de qualidade de vida que mostrou correlação estatisticamente significante com todas as variáveis demográficas foi o domínio Meio Ambiente. CONCLUSÃO: Fatores como acesso a lazer, saúde e transporte têm papel importante na qualidade de vida percebida por pais de crianças do espectro autístico.

the results of the present study reinforce that the procedures used to determine the individual abilities and inabilities were useful in planning the intervention procedures.

Objective: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental impairment. To better understand the role of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in different countries in supporting children with ASD, the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) Child Language Committee developed a survey for SLPs working with children or adolescents with ASD. Method and Participants: The survey comprised 58 questions about background information of respondents, characteristics of children with ASD, and the role of SLPs in diagnosis, assessment, and intervention practices. The survey was available in English, French, Russian, and Portuguese, and distributed online. Results: This paper provides a descriptive summary of the main findings from the quantitative data from the 1,114 SLPs (representing 35 countries) who were supporting children with ASD. Most of the respondents (91%) were experienced in working with children with ASD, and the majority (75%) worked in schools or early childhood settings. SLPs reported that the children’s typical age at diagnosis of ASD on their caseload was 3–4 years, completed mostly by a professional team. Conclusions: The results support positive global trends for SLPs using effective practices in assessment and intervention for children with ASD. Two areas where SLPs may need further support are involving parents in assessment practices, and supporting literacy development in children with ASD.

TEMA: funções comunicativas utilizadas por terapeutas e pacientes. OBJETIVO: analisar o uso de funções comunicativas por terapeutas de pacientes do espectro autístico. MÉTODO: Foram analisadas as funções comunicativas utilizadas por seis terapeutas em interação com seis pacientes cada, constituindo um corpo de análise de 36 perfis de funções comunicativas por díade terapeuta-paciente. Todas as terapeutas faziam parte do Programa de Aprimoramento em Distúrbios Psiquiátricos da Infância, seus pacientes pertenciam ao espectro autístico. Para a coleta dos dados foram utilizadas as transcrições da gravação de uma sessão de terapia e analisadas segundo Fernandes, (2000). As funções comunicativas foram divididas de duas formas: mais e menos interpessoais e instrumental, regulatória, interacional, pessoal, heurística e imaginativa . RESULTADOS: a comparação entre as funções usadas por terapeutas e paciente revelou que houve diferença estatisticamente significante no uso das funções: pedido de rotina social, de informação e de ação, comentário, reconhecimento do outro, exclamativa, não focalizada, exploratória, exibição, jogo e reativa. Quanto à divisão em funções mais e menos interpessoais ou entre funções instrumental, regulatória, interacional, pessoal, heurística e imaginativa houve diferença estatisticamente significante no uso das funções mais e menos interpessoais e das funções regulatória, interacional, pessoal e heurística. CONCLUSÃO: o perfil funcional da comunicação das terapeutas é bastante distinto do de seus pacientes quando comparamos cada uma das funções e quando analisamos os agrupamentos de funções (mais e menos interpessoais e instrumental, regulatória, interacional, pessoal, heurística e imaginativa). As terapeutas utilizam funções para preencher o espaço comunicativo e realizar pedidos, resultado que concorda com estudos anteriores.

The questionnaire identified differences in perception and attitude of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders and children without complaints of language in relation to communication difficulties with their children. Thus, it was proved useful to assess these difficulties in a larger group of individuals.