Pediatric phoniatry outpatient ward: clinical and epidemiological characteristics

Abstract

The population seen was predominantly male, with more complex language development deviations probably due to multiple etiologies. Many of them had no hearing diagnosis.

Perfil populacional de Grupo de Avaliação e Prevenção de Alterações de Linguagem (GAPAL)

“…Regarding the distribution of initial complaints, which prompted the search for the service, most cases (63.6%) were demand for SLP services (5,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) , some of which (5,10,12) found a proportion of two to three boys for every girl. The authors have posed hypothesis that could justify such occurrence and, even without any scientific proof, the fact that boys present slower brain maturation than girls, apart from the possible influence of genetic factors, seem to justify the higher incidence of complaints in this gender.…”

Epidemiology of communication disorders in childhood phoniatric clinical practice

“…There are several explanations for the male predominance in the literature, but there is no definitive consensus. 6 , 7 , 8…”