Summary Introduction:?Presently, it is admitted that individuals with reading and writing alterations may present delay in the development of listening skills, which may interfere in the learning process. The assessment of the listening skills can occur in a behavioral way, through central auditory processing (CAP) tests, or by electrophysiological assessment highlighting the long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEP). The use of the LLAEP as a means of complementary assessment of individuals with reading and writing alterations can become an important data both for further characterization of the alterations, as for the therapeutic guidance of this population. Objective:?Characterize the CAP and the LLAEP in children with reading and writing alterations. Method:?Research approved by the Institution's Ethic Commission under n? 305/10. The assessment of CAP and LLAEP was performed in 12 children aged between 8 and 12 years old (average of 10,6 years), with reading and writing alterations confirmed in specific evaluation. Results:?The most altered CAP skills were temporal ordination and figure-ground for linguistic sounds. There were found altered results in P300 and in MMN. Conclusion:?The individuals with reading and writing alterations performed below the expected on CAP tests. The MMN allowed a better characterization of the auditory function of this population. There was evidence of association between the CAP results and the alteration of the LLAEP.

Students demonstrated improvement, suggesting the effectiveness of the program.

PURPOSE: To characterize the performance of students from the 5th year of primary school, with and without indicatives of reading and writing disorders, in receptive vocabulary and reading comprehension of sentences and texts, and to verify possible correlations between both.METHODS: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution (no. 098/13). Fifty-two students in the 5th year from primary school, with and without indicatives of reading and writing disorders, and from two public schools participated in this study. After signing the informed consent and having a speech therapy assessment for the application of inclusion criteria, the students were submitted to a specific test for standardized evaluation of receptive vocabulary and reading comprehension. The data were studied using statistical analysis through the Kruskal-Wallis test, analysis of variance techniques, and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient with level of significance to be 0.05. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (was constructed in which reading comprehension was considered as gold standard.RESULTS: The students without indicatives of reading and writing disorders presented a better performance in all tests. No significant correlation was found between the tests that evaluated reading comprehension in either group. A correlation was found between reading comprehension of texts and receptive vocabulary in the group without indicatives.CONCLUSION: In the absence of indicatives of reading and writing disorders, the presence of a good range of vocabulary highly contributes to a proficient reading comprehension of texts.

OBJETIVO: Investigar o desempenho de crianças ao final do Ciclo I do Ensino Fundamental em memória operacional fonológica e consciência fonológica, bem como a possível relação entre essas habilidades nesta faixa de escolaridade. MÉTODOS: O grupo de pesquisa foi composto por 29 sujeitos de ambos os gêneros, com média de idade de 10 anos, todos regularmente matriculados no 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental com ausência de alterações de linguagem oral e/ou escrita. Foi realizada a avaliação da memória operacional fonológica com a utilização do Teste de Repetição de Pseudopalavras e, posteriormente, utilizou-se o Instrumento de Avaliação Sequencial - CONFIAS para avaliar a consciência fonológica. RESULTADOS: Os escolares apresentaram desempenho adequado na memória operacional fonológica independente da similaridade da pseudopalavra. Para a consciência fonológica, observou-se desempenho melhor no nível silábico e inferior ao esperado para o nível fonêmico. Apesar de muitos estudos afirmarem a correlação entre a memória operacional fonológica e a consciência fonológica, esta não foi observada nesta amostra. CONCLUSÃO: A ausência de correlação encontrada entre essas habilidades traz reflexões quanto a possíveis fatores extrínsecos que podem influenciar o desempenho em consciência fonológica.

RESUMO: a produção escrita de estudantes surdos tem sido objeto de estudos nacionais e internacionais devido às histórias recorrentes de fracassos escolares e as dificuldades de ensino por parte dos educadores em propiciar a significação da Língua Escrita para esta população especifica. Pesquisas nacionais enfatizam que os surdos apresentam dificuldades na escrita do português, principalmente no uso de verbos. Buscando compreender melhor este processo, o presente estudo teve por objetivo avaliar a flexão verbal de tempo na escrita de surdos sinalizadores e observar a presença de outros marcadores de tempo em suas frases. O estudo foi realizado com vinte e dois sujeitos, com idade entre 14 e 24 anos e escolaridade de 3ª a 7ª série do Ensino Fundamental. Estes indivíduos foram avaliados quanto ao conhecimento em Língua Brasileira de Sinais de seis verbos de ação (por meio de cartelas contendo figuras representando estas ações) e em seguida foram orientados a escrever três frases com cada verbo, sendo uma no tempo passado, uma no presente e uma no futuro. Os dados foram avaliados qualitativa e quantitativamente e demonstraram que os sujeitos apresentaram dificuldade na flexão verbal de tempo, havendo o predomínio do verbo na forma nominal do infinitivo. Quanto a outros marcadores de tempo utilizados nas frases, os advérbios de tempo foram os mais freqüentes. Os sujeitos que estavam matriculados em séries mais avançadas apresentaram melhor uso das flexões verbais de tempo e fizeram uso mais freqüente de outros marcadores de tempo. Conclui-se que apesar de um longo tempo de escolaridade, a maioria dos surdos do estudo não sabe realizar a flexão verbal de tempo da Língua Portuguesa. Este fato demonstra a necessidade de repensar as práticas de ensino da Língua Portuguesa, como segunda língua, para que os surdos tenham a oportunidade de apropriar-se cada vez mais cedo da escrita, e participar ativamente da sociedade. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:Surdez. Linguagem escrita. Língua brasileira de sinais. Educação Especial.ABSTRACT: written production of deaf students has been the focus of national and international studies due to recurrent cases of academic failure and to the problems teachers encounter as they attempt to ensure understanding of the written language for this specific population. National research emphasizes that deaf students present difficulties in writing in Portuguese, specifically in verb use. In order to better understand this process, this study aimed to assess verbal inflection for tense in deaf signers' written production and to observe the presence of other tense markers in their sentences. The study was carried out with twenty two subjects, ranging in age from 14 to 24 years, with an educational level varying from the 3 rd to the 7 th grade Elementary School level. Subjects were assessed concerning their knowledge of six action verbs in Brazilian Sign Language (using boards with pictures representing the actions) and then they were asked to write three sentences with each verb, one in the past tense, one in the...

INTRODUÇÃOA leitura de um texto consiste nas habilidades de decodificação, compreensão e interpretação (1) . A compreensão é uma tarefa que inclui diferentes processos cognitivos, como memória e inferência; diferentes níveis de complexidade, denominados de baixo nível (identificação de palavras e letras) e alto nível (elaboração de inferências) (2) ; e, diferentes fatores, tais como vocabulário adquirido, a fluên-cia da e motivação pela leitura (3)(4)(5) . Contudo, a compreensão de leitura sofre também a interferência das sequências de técnicas ou de atividades que o leitor utiliza com o propósito de facilitar a aquisição, o armazenamento e/ou a utilização da informação,denominadas de estratégias de aprendizagem (ensaio, elaboração, organização, monitoramento e afetivas) (6) . Tais técnicas possibilitam a reconstrução do significado do texto com base na integração de informações e inferências.A literatura citada refere-se aos estudantes ouvintes. Sabese que estudantes surdos, cuja primeira língua é a de sinais, passam por processos diferentes para a aquisição e aprimoramento da segunda língua, na modalidade escrita (7,8) . Estudos evidenciam que durante a leitura de um texto, os surdos sinalizadores atêm-se mais às ilustrações do que os leitores ouvintes (9)

Purpose: to characterize the performance of 4th grade-Elementary School students with and without signs of reading and writing disorders as for phonological awareness and reading comprehension, and also verify possible correlations between them.Methods: 60 children enrolled in the 4th grade of Elementary School from two public schools, whose parents signed the Informed Consent Form, participated in the present study. They were selected and organized in groups, with and without signs of reading and writing disorders. All students were individually assessed regarding their phonological awareness and reading comprehension of sentences and texts through standardized tests. The data underwent statistical analysis.Results: those with signs of reading and writing disorders showed the lowest performance in the reading comprehension of sentences and texts. A correlation was found between phonological awareness and reading comprehension of sentences and texts in both groups.Conclusion: students with no signs of reading and writing disorders had a higher performance in the skills assessed. The correlation found between phonological awareness and reading comprehension of sentences and texts shows not only the importance of metaphonological skills for a proficient reading, but also for a comprehensive one.

Purpose Prepare a Speech-language Pathology Program for Reading Comprehension and Orthography and verify its effects on the reading comprehension and spelling of students with Developmental Dyslexia. Methods The study sample was composed of eleven individuals (eight males), diagnosed with Developmental Dyslexia, aged 09-11 years. All participants underwent a Speech-language Pathology Program in Reading Comprehension and Orthography comprising 16 individual weekly sessions. In each session, tasks of reading comprehension of texts and orthography were developed. At the beginning and end of the Program, the participants were submitted to a specific assessment (pre- and post-test). Results The individuals presented difficulty in reading comprehension, but the Cloze technique proved to be a useful remediation tool, and significant improvement in their performance was observed in the post-test evaluation. The dyslexic individuals showed poor performance for their educational level in the spelling assessment. At the end of the program, their performance evolved, but it remained below the expected, showing the same error pattern at the pre- and post-tests, with errors in both natural and arbitrary spelling. Conclusion The proposed Speech-language Pathology Program for Reading Comprehension and Orthography produced positive effects on the reading comprehension, spelling, and motivation to reading and writing of the participants. This study presents an unprecedented contribution by proposing joint stimulation of reading and writing by means of a program easy to apply and analyze in individuals with Developmental Dyslexia.