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Abstract Introduction: Learning disability has a significant relevance and can generate negative social impacts on the future of an individual if not corrected in time. Phoniatrics is an area of otorhinolaryngology responsible for evaluating, diagnosing, and referring these cases for therapy and/or complementing the multidisciplinary diagnosis. Objective: To evaluate in school-aged children the association between the application of a set of tests used in the phoniatric assessment and complaints of academic difficulties. To identify which tests would show the main association with academic performance when applied individually. Methods: Blind, cross-sectional study, subdivided into 4 stages. In the 1st stage, 66 children in the third year of elementary school were submitted to the set of tests of skills applied by the phoniatrician; in the 2nd stage, the physician asked the educators about complaints of academic difficulties regarding the students; in the 3rd stage the students' Portuguese language school grade was obtained and in the 4th stage an analysis was made between the data. Results: The educator identified complaints of academic difficulties in 27.2% of the 66 students. There was a statistically significant association between academic difficulties and the following tests of skills: dictation of words and pseudowords, dictation of words, dictation of pseudowords, rhyming, phonemic synthesis, and in the reading test; fluency, intonation and comprehension of the text and morals were analyzed in the reading test. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, the tests selected to comprise the final model, showing greater association with the academic difficulty complaint were: dictation of words, intonation in reading and comprehension of the morals of the story. Conclusion: The tests identified as the most relevant in identifying academic difficulties were dictation of words, intonation in reading and comprehension of the morals of the story. However, the other tests that were part of the phoniatric consultation allowed the observation of the individual and their functioning abilities, leading to a better assessment of the case, regarding aspects not directly related to the pedagogical one.
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El manejo de la pandemia por COVID-19 ha generado grandes cambios sociales y mundiales. Uno de ellos, debido al distanciamiento social, ha sido la incorporación de la telepráctica de la terapia vocal en países que tenían poco o nulo conocimiento de ella. Este artículo tiene el propósito de reflexionar sobre la aplicación de la teleprác-tica de la terapia vocal, considerando los beneficios, barreras y oportunidades que surgen de ella. Además, se plantea que la aplicación de la telepráctica requiere de una política, de un marco legislativo y de aspectos éticos para asegurar una terapia vocal exitosa. ¿Es efectiva la telepráctica? ¿es posible aplicarla? ¿qué requiere su aplicación?
The management of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated huge changes socially and worldwide. One of these, due to social distancing, has been the incorporation of telepractice to voice therapy in countries where the knowledge of it was very little or there was none. The purpose of this article is to reflect about the usage of tele-practice in voice therapy by considering the benefits, barriers and opportunities that emerge from it. The paper also poses that the application of telepractice requires po-licies, a legislative framework and ethical aspects to ensure a successful voice therapy. Is the telepractice effective? Can it be implemented? What does its appliance require?
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Speech Therapy , Voice Training , Voice Disorders , Teletherapy , Voice , Voice/physiology , Phonetics , Speech-Language Pathology , Telemedicine , Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences , Physical Distancing , COVID-19ABSTRACT
Hoy en día el conocimiento avanza a pasos agigantados. Cada vez hay más fonoau-diólogos en diversas áreas de la profesión. Llama la atención de muchos el área ar-tística, pues es un área poco explorada y amplia. Este artículo tiene el objetivo de reflexionar sobre la intervención vocal en artistas (cantantes, actores y otros). Su im-plementación debe comprender una mirada completa de la persona: voz, fisiología, fisiopatología, emociones, rol, aspectos médicos, farmacológicos y características in-dividuales. Esto promueve la adherencia de un profesional de la voz a su área de conocimiento y genera un espacio de sanidad, exploración y libertad artística en términos actuales, incluso en medio de una pandemia
Nowadays the knowledge is advancing by leaps and bounds. The number of Speech Pathologists in different areas of the profession has increased. The artistic area calls the attention of many, because it is a hardly explored and wide area. This article aims to reflect on vocal intervention on artists (singers, actors and others). Its imple-mentation should include a thorough overview of the person: voice, physiology, phy-siopathology, emotions, role, medical and pharmacological aspects and individual characteristics. This promotes the adhesion of a voice professional to their area of its own knowledge, thus allowing a space for healing, exploration and artistic freedom in current terms, even in the midst of a pandemic
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Speech Therapy , Voice Quality , Voice Training , Voice Disorders , Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases , Speech , Voice , Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences , Singing , MusicABSTRACT
In some specific measurement, observations, and analyses of certain aspects of the voice and voice production used in phoniatrics, signs of various laryngeal disorders were identified, indicating that these tools can be used as aids in the diagnosis of laryngeal disorders.