A extensão média do enunciado (EME) como medida do desenvolvimento de linguagem de crianças com síndrome de Down

Marques, Suelen Fernanda; Limongi, Suelly Cecília Olivan

doi:10.1590/s2179-64912011000200012

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“…These results corroborate literature findings, which indicate the influence of age on the language development of children with DS, that is, despite of the difficulties, these subjects develop their language abilities 3,5,7 . In this sense, the period of 12 months between assessments in this study can be considered a period of positive influence 9,12,16,22 .…”

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“…Studies 3,7,12,31,32 have shown the importance to consider MLU as a measure of language development, both for morphemes and words, also for individuals with DS. The comparison between MLU-m and MLU-w provided data that, while corroborated by international studies 32,33 , also reinforce findings of national studies with this same population 7,9 .…”

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“…During this 12-month period, each subject was submitted to approximately 30 weekly sessions of speech-language intervention. the use of shorter and simpler, telegraphic utterances 2,7,9,11,12 .…”

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“…It is reported greater difficulties in functional words, such as articles, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions, which have greater grammatical load, than in words with semantic content, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives. In addition, these children have difficulties combining words and dealing with morphosyntactic rules, which have implications in phrasal structure [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] .The use of Mean Length Utterance -MLU 10 as a measure of language development in children with DS corroborates these difficulties, and indicates frequent omission of grammatical morphemes, particularly of functional words, resulting in ABSTRACT Purpose: to present and to discuss the use of augmentative and alternative communication as a therapeutic tool with the morphosyntax with adolescents with Down syndrome. Methods: this pilot study monitored during 12 months four adolescents chronologically aged between 13 and 15 years and mentally aged between 5 and 6 years.…”

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Clinical Trials registration number: NCT 00952354Conflict of interest: non existent typical development (TD), and literature indicates a relationship between lexicon and grammar. It is reported greater difficulties in functional words, such as articles, pronouns, prepositions and conjunctions, which have greater grammatical load, than in words with semantic content, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives. In addition, these children have difficulties combining words and dealing with morphosyntactic rules, which have implications in phrasal structure [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] .The use of Mean Length Utterance -MLU 10 as a measure of language development in children with DS corroborates these difficulties, and indicates frequent omission of grammatical morphemes, particularly of functional words, resulting in ABSTRACT Purpose: to present and to discuss the use of augmentative and alternative communication as a therapeutic tool with the morphosyntax with adolescents with Down syndrome. Methods: this pilot study monitored during 12 months four adolescents chronologically aged between 13 and 15 years and mentally aged between 5 and 6 years. It were analyzed the initial and the final assessments, situations of free interaction between the participant and the caregiver videotaped during 30 minutes. The speech samples were analyzed as MLU values considering morphemes and words, comparing both the two situations. All of the participants were submitted to the same procedures during the therapeutic interventions. Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) has been used and the symbols were organized according to a simple syntactic structure (substantive + verb + complement) with a gradual extension, and the elements were rated at the following order: articles, prepositions, pronouns (personals, possessives and demonstratives), and conjunctions. Each therapeutic session was recorded in specific protocol. It was used the Wilcoxon test and the p value considered was 5%. Results: spites there were no statistical significant differences, increase in number of morphemes and words used between the both assessments was observed. This improve was represented by the worked elements, including prepositions and conjunctions beyond substantives and verbs. For personal pronouns there was tendency to significance (p=0,068). Conclusion: the communication system showed to be a therapeutic tool to improve the use of syntactic elements in statement structures, as articles, prepositions and conjunctions, which use for individuals with Down syndrome are difficult.

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