Perfil de habilidades de comunicação de dois irmãos com a Síndrome Alcoólica Fetal
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2007-12-01
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Garcia, Roberta
Rossi, Natalia Freitas [UNESP]
Giacheti, Célia Maria [UNESP]
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CEFAC Saúde e Educação
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OBJETIVO: caracterizar o perfil de habilidades de comunicação e o desempenho nos subtestes do Teste Illinois de Habilidades Psicolingüísticas (ITPA) de dois irmãos com diagnóstico da Síndrome Alcoólica Fetal (SAF): S1, sexo feminino, 16 anos e S2, sexo masculino, 8 anos, alunos de escola especial. MÉTODOS: realizou-se a avaliação fonoaudiológica clínica, complementada pela aplicação do ITPA. RESULTADOS: dados de avaliação clínica com S1 mostraram prejuízo grave de compreensão oral, não sendo capaz de seguir instruções (verbal e gestual) simples. Também não se observou uso de recursos gestuais ou orais, por parte da mesma para se comunicar. Devido ao nível de comprometimento, não foi possível obter dados relativos aos desempenhos amostrados no ITPA. Dados de avaliação clínica com S2 mostraram resultados bastante diferentes. S2 utiliza preferencialmente a fala para se comunicar, responde perguntas, mantendo o tema e é capaz de seguir instruções verbais simples. Entretanto, observou-se desempenho inferior ao esperado para idade em situações que requeriam narrativa de fatos e eventos, indicando prejuízos em aspectos sintáticos e semânticos da linguagem. No ITPA obteve pontuação inferior a idade cronológica em quase todos os subtestes. O pior desempenho foi observado nos subtestes que envolviam habilidades perceptivas auditivas. CONCLUSÕES: esses resultados indicam que, apesar de ambos terem o mesmo diagnóstico genético e viverem sob as mesmas condições familiares, o perfil fonoaudiológico difere. Pode-se especular que prejuízos mais graves em habilidades comunicativas de S1 podem estar relacionados a níveis mais elevados de exposição ao álcool durante etapas críticas do desenvolvimento fetal.
PURPOSE: to characterize the communication profile and the performance in the subtests of Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) of two siblings with Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS): S1, female 16 years and S2, male, 8 years and both of special school students. METHODS: clinical evaluation of language abilities was carried out and complemented by the ITPA test. RESULTS: data of clinical evaluation with S1 showed verbal understanding impairment. S1 was not capable to follow simple instructions (verbal and gestual) and the use of verbal and gestual resources communication was not also observed. Due to the compromising level, it was not possible to obtain relative data to the ITPA test. Quite different results was observed in the clinical evaluation of S2, considering that he was able to make questions, maintaining the theme and to follow simple verbal instructions. However, low performance was observed for age in situations that requested narrative of facts and events that shown syntactic and semantic impairments. Scale score obtained by S2 in the ITPA subtests revealed low performance in auditory and visual abilities. CONCLUSIONS: although the siblings have the same diagnosis and live under the same environmental conditions, the communication profile was significantly different. It can be speculated that more serious impairments in communicative abilities of S1 can be related to higher levels of exposure to alcohol during critical stages of the fetal development.
PURPOSE: to characterize the communication profile and the performance in the subtests of Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) of two siblings with Fetal Alcohol syndrome (FAS): S1, female 16 years and S2, male, 8 years and both of special school students. METHODS: clinical evaluation of language abilities was carried out and complemented by the ITPA test. RESULTS: data of clinical evaluation with S1 showed verbal understanding impairment. S1 was not capable to follow simple instructions (verbal and gestual) and the use of verbal and gestual resources communication was not also observed. Due to the compromising level, it was not possible to obtain relative data to the ITPA test. Quite different results was observed in the clinical evaluation of S2, considering that he was able to make questions, maintaining the theme and to follow simple verbal instructions. However, low performance was observed for age in situations that requested narrative of facts and events that shown syntactic and semantic impairments. Scale score obtained by S2 in the ITPA subtests revealed low performance in auditory and visual abilities. CONCLUSIONS: although the siblings have the same diagnosis and live under the same environmental conditions, the communication profile was significantly different. It can be speculated that more serious impairments in communicative abilities of S1 can be related to higher levels of exposure to alcohol during critical stages of the fetal development.
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Síndrome Alcoólica Fetal, Comunicação, Linguagem, Aprendizagem, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Communication, Language, Learning
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Revista CEFAC. CEFAC Saúde e Educação, v. 9, n. 4, p. 461-468, 2007.