Utilização de substantivos e verbos por crianças com síndrome de Down em duas situações diferentes

The use of nouns and verbs by children with Down syndrome in two different situations

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OBJETIVO: Verificar a utilização de substantivos e verbos por crianças com síndrome de Down e comparar esse uso em situações de interação com o terapeuta e com a mãe. MÉTODOS: Participaram 21 crianças com idades entre 5 e 11 anos, divididas em 3 grupos igualitários com base nas idades cronológica e mental, a partir da aplicação do Primary Test of Nonverbal Intelligence. A coleta de fala foi feita a partir de situações de interação livre, gravadas em vídeo por período de 30 minutos e transcritas em protocolo específico, sendo utilizados os primeiros 100 enunciados, a partir dos 5 minutos iniciais. O tempo de intervalo entre cada situação foi de 7 a 15 dias. A análise estatística utilizou o teste-t pareado e a análise de variância (ANOVA). Foi adotado o valor de significância de 5%. RESULTADOS: Foram produzidos mais verbos do que substantivos nas duas situações de interação, sendo mais verbos e substantivos com o terapeuta do que com a mãe. A comparação entre os grupos na interação com o terapeuta mostrou diferença tanto para substantivos quanto para verbos e, com a mãe, apenas tendência à diferença para os verbos. CONCLUSÃO: Os dados apontam para crescente desenvolvimento no uso de substantivos e de verbos de acordo com o aumento da idade. Houve maior utilização de verbos que de substantivos, principalmente na situação de interação com o terapeuta.

Síndrome de Down; Desenvolvimento da linguagem; Desenvolvimento infantil; Criança; Linguística; Estudos de linguagem; Transtornos da linguagem

PURPOSE: To verify the use of nouns and verbs by children with Down syndrome and to compare this use between conditions of interaction with the mother and the Speech-language pathologist (SLP). METHODS: Participants were 21 children aged between 5 and 11 years, divided into three groups, according to chronological and mental age as established by the results of the Primary Tests of Nonverbal Intelligence. The speech sample was obtained through free interaction situations that were videotaped during session of 30 minutes and transcribed in specific protocols. The first 100 utterances from the first five minutes were used. The interval between each situation ranged from 7 to 15 days. T-test and analysis of variance were used for statistical analysis and the significance level adopted was of 5%. RESULTS: More verbs than nouns were used in both conditions; however, a higher number of nouns were observed during the interaction with the SLP. The between-group comparison in the interaction with the SLP shows significant differences for verbs and nouns, but during the interaction with the mother, there was tendency for difference only for the verbs. CONCLUSION: The data indicate the growing development on using of nouns and verbs according to the increase of age. There was a higher use of verbs when compared with nouns mainly in the condition of interaction with the SLP.

Down syndrome; Language development; Child development; Child; Linguistics; Language arts; Language disorders

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Datas de Publicação

• Publicação nesta coleção
  19 Jul 2013
• Data do Fascículo
  2013

Histórico

• Recebido
  10 Set 2012
• Aceito
  20 Dez 2012