“…Another study (11) underscored the difficulty of individuals in accessing both meanings of homonymous words, which led them to verbally express only one of the meanings, that is, the one that was activated first, probably the most familiar. Studies addressing the relationship between semantic networks for the lexical access in the task of detection of ambiguities (13,14) and in the restrictions of the lexical process assigned to semantic features (14) have demonstrated that individuals born with low weight may present, later in life, semantic difficulties in receptive vocabulary (17) , differences in expressive language (18) , and deficits in semantic verbal fluency (19) , which would explain their difficulty in verbally expressing the ambiguous meanings of words given in oral sentences, observed in our SG. However, in the present study, we also observed that, regarding the score Number of Pictures (Table 1), the difference between the groups disappeared, that is, the groups presented equivalent results with the use of the visual facilitator.…”