Intervention Program for Brazilian Children with Language Delay

Abstract

The acquisition and development of language are primary in a child's life, especially because language is one of the main means of social interaction. Therefore, it is of great importance that good language development has been assured to children and, when necessary, good intervention at their diiculties. Currently, in the ield of children's language in Brazil, diferent therapeutic approaches are arguable, but the necessity of development of structured therapeutic programs is veriied, elaborated with technical and scientiic quality so that they may stimulate the diferent abilities of language, aiming at considering the speciicities of each child in order to minimize the diiculties. Such intervention programs would guide speech-language pathologists to plan their therapies and provide more efects in the intervention process. The aim of this study is to elaborate a stimulation program for verbal language for children with language delay. For this reason, the stimulation program was judged by peers (experts) after it was designed. The experts veriied if the strategies were coherent about (a) the stimulation target and (b) the complexity level. In conclusion, the program reached the goal, since it could give direction and enhance to speech-language pathologists in cases of diiculties in verbal language.

Programa de estimulação de linguagem oral para crianças com atraso de linguagem

“…Neste estudo foram realizadas 24 sessões de intervenção em dez crianças com AL de três a seis anos. O estudo piloto teve seus resultados apresentados (Anexo A) e para isso foram reelaborados os programas de intervenção de modo a sanar as dificuldades(GUARNIERI et al, 2013).No estudo piloto foi encontrada uma melhora em todas as habilidades testadas no momento pós-intervenção, de forma que a maioria dos resultados teve significância estatística, sendo que a única habilidade que não teve significância foi a de DA.Outro dado importante obtido pelo estudo piloto foi que, mesmo a amostra sendo bastante especifica, houve diferenças no nível de linguagem destas crianças. Após análise e adequações segundo as considerações dos juízes, o programa foi aplicado nas dez crianças participantes do estudo (todas as sessões interventivas foram gravadas para posterior análise).…”