Do balbucio à fala: reflexões sobre a importância das atividades linguísticas iniciais e o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral em crianças com deficiência auditiva / From babbling to speech: the role of linguistics activities and the inicial development of oral language to hearing impaired children

Objetiva estabelecer conexões sensório-motoras nos primeiros meses de vida se dá em grande parte por meio do balbucio, visto como fator determinante para que a fala se desenvolva de modo favorável

Using the Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI'S) to assess the lexical development of cochlear implanted children.

BACKGROUND: Clinical demands motivated the use of the adapted form of The Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI'S) to assess the lexical development of cochlear implanted children (CI). AIM: To present the application of Part I of the Protocol of Words and Sentences, adapted to the Brazilian Portuguese language, to follow lexical development. METHOD: Two children, with ages of 2.3 and 3.9 years, implanted at 18 and 36 months respectively, were investigated. RESULTS: Linguistic elements that have a function and/or meaning that are predominantly syntactic are used later than elements that have a concrete meaning. CONCLUSION: The inventory of words facilitated the follow up of the lexical development of the children in this study.

Using the Macarthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI'S) to assess the lexical development of cochlear implanted children

Tema: necessidades de ordem clínica motivaram a utilização dos Inventários Macarthur de Desenvolvimento Comunicativo (CDI'S) na avaliação do desenvolvimento lexical de crianças usuárias de implante coclear (IC) multicanal. Objetivo: apresentar a utilização da Parte I do Protocolo Palavras e Setenças adaptado ao português brasileiro (PB), para o acompanhamento do desenvolvimento lexical. Método: Estudou-se o caso de duas crianças usuárias de IC com idades de 2,3 e 3,9; implantadas aos 18 e 36 meses, respectivamente. Resultados: os elementos lingüísticos com funções e/ou sentido predominantemente sintáticos são usados mais tardiamente do que os elementos com significado concreto. Conclusão: o inventário de palavras facilitou o acompnhamento do desenvolvimento lexical das crianças nesse estudo.

Early sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian Portuguese speakers.

Sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children are compared with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) characteristics. The relationship between production system effects and ambient language influences in the acquisition of early sound patterns is of primary interest, as English and BP are characterized by differing phonological systems. Results emphasize the primacy of production system effects in early acquisition, although even the earliest word forms show evidence of perceptual effects from the ambient language in both BP children. Use of labials and coronals and low and midfront vowels in simple syllable shapes is consistent with acquisition data for this period across languages. However, potential ambient language influences include higher frequencies of dorsals, use of multisyllabic words, and different phone types in syllable-offset position. These results suggest that to fully understand early acquisition of sound systems one must account for both production system effects and perceptual effects from the ambient language.