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Purpose: to develop and analyze a list of target words providing a favorable environment for the acquisition of target sounds in simple onset position, using a programming algorithm to assign a favorability score for each of these words. Methods: an algorithm was programmed to calculate a favorability score for target words by adding up the weights assigned to the following variables, with regards to the target sound: position within the word, stress pattern, number of syllables, preceding and following context. The algorithm was programmed using Java. The lists of target words for each target sound contained a total of 748 words. A score was calculated for each item, and used to classify the word as favorable, neutral, or unfavorable.Results: target words with the highest scores on the aforementioned variables were considered favorable, as they provided a facilitating context for the production of the target sound. However, target words did not need to meet all aforementioned linguistic criteria to be considered favorable. Conclusion: the algorithm was efficient in calculating favorability scores for the target words. However, although words classified as favorable, or those with high scores on linguistic measures, should be preferred during the selection of target stimuli, these may not necessarily apply to all types of phonological disorder. Keywords: Speech; Speech Disorders; Child; Rehabilitation of Speech and Language Disorders; Speech Therapy RESUMO Objetivos: propor e analisar listas com palavras-estímulo em contextos linguísticos favorecedores para segmentos-alvo na posição de onset simples, utilizando um padrão de programação para pontuar o nível de favorecimento dessas palavras. Métodos: foi desenvolvido um padrão de programação, em linguagem Java, para determinar a pontuação das palavras-estímulo, que considerou o somatório dos pesos atribuídos às variáveis linguísticas: posição na palavra, tonicidade, número de sílabas, contexto precedente e contexto seguinte, para cada segmento-alvo. Foram utilizadas 748 palavras para elaboração de listas de palavras-estímulo para cada segmento-alvo. Todas as palavras-estímulo tiveram sua pontuação de favorecimento calculada a partir do padrão de programação e classificadas quanto ao nível de favorecimento. Resultados: verificou-se que as palavras-estímulo classificadas como favorecedoras (PEF) foram as que alcançaram maior pontuação, uma vez que contemplaram os contextos mais favorecedores para produção do segmento-alvo. Contudo não foi necessário que todos os contextos favorecedores fossem privilegiados para as palavras serem classificadas como PEF. Conclusão: o padrão de programação desenvolvido foi eficiente para pontuar o nível de favorecimento das palavras-estímulo. Além disso, deve haver uma preferência por palavras-estímulo favorecedoras, ou que alcançam maior pontuação, porém nem sempre essas palavras são as mais adequadas para o tratamento de qualquer sistema fonológico desviante.
Purpose: to develop and analyze a list of target words providing a favorable environment for the acquisition of target sounds in simple onset position, using a programming algorithm to assign a favorability score for each of these words. Methods: an algorithm was programmed to calculate a favorability score for target words by adding up the weights assigned to the following variables, with regards to the target sound: position within the word, stress pattern, number of syllables, preceding and following context. The algorithm was programmed using Java. The lists of target words for each target sound contained a total of 748 words. A score was calculated for each item, and used to classify the word as favorable, neutral, or unfavorable.Results: target words with the highest scores on the aforementioned variables were considered favorable, as they provided a facilitating context for the production of the target sound. However, target words did not need to meet all aforementioned linguistic criteria to be considered favorable. Conclusion: the algorithm was efficient in calculating favorability scores for the target words. However, although words classified as favorable, or those with high scores on linguistic measures, should be preferred during the selection of target stimuli, these may not necessarily apply to all types of phonological disorder. Keywords: Speech; Speech Disorders; Child; Rehabilitation of Speech and Language Disorders; Speech Therapy RESUMO Objetivos: propor e analisar listas com palavras-estímulo em contextos linguísticos favorecedores para segmentos-alvo na posição de onset simples, utilizando um padrão de programação para pontuar o nível de favorecimento dessas palavras. Métodos: foi desenvolvido um padrão de programação, em linguagem Java, para determinar a pontuação das palavras-estímulo, que considerou o somatório dos pesos atribuídos às variáveis linguísticas: posição na palavra, tonicidade, número de sílabas, contexto precedente e contexto seguinte, para cada segmento-alvo. Foram utilizadas 748 palavras para elaboração de listas de palavras-estímulo para cada segmento-alvo. Todas as palavras-estímulo tiveram sua pontuação de favorecimento calculada a partir do padrão de programação e classificadas quanto ao nível de favorecimento. Resultados: verificou-se que as palavras-estímulo classificadas como favorecedoras (PEF) foram as que alcançaram maior pontuação, uma vez que contemplaram os contextos mais favorecedores para produção do segmento-alvo. Contudo não foi necessário que todos os contextos favorecedores fossem privilegiados para as palavras serem classificadas como PEF. Conclusão: o padrão de programação desenvolvido foi eficiente para pontuar o nível de favorecimento das palavras-estímulo. Além disso, deve haver uma preferência por palavras-estímulo favorecedoras, ou que alcançam maior pontuação, porém nem sempre essas palavras são as mais adequadas para o tratamento de qualquer sistema fonológico desviante.
Introduction Phonological development occurs in a gradual manner until the age of 7 years. The phonological system is constructed in a similar way for all children, despite presenting some variations in terms of age, paths taken, or repair strategies used. Objective To compare the orofacial praxis abilities of children with typical phonological development (DFT), children with phonetic-phonological impairment (DFoFe), and children with phonological impairment (DF), using two tests to assess the orofacial praxis abilities. Methods The sample consisted of 82 subjects between 4 and 8 years of age who attended public schools (from preschool to the second year of secondary school) in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil. Of these, 29 were diagnosed with DFT, 29 with DF, and 24 with DFoFe; much of this sample was male. Two tests of praxis abilities and assessment of the stomatognathic system were administered. Statistical analysis was performed using the chi-square test, with a significance level of 5%. Results Generally children with DFoFe underperformed in tests of praxis when compared with subjects with DF and DFT. Conclusion The results showed that children with DFoFe have more difficulty in orofacial praxis abilities than subjects in the other groups studied. This result could be expected, because subjects with DFoFe show changes in both phonetic and phonological levels of speech.
BACKGROUND: Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) has been defined as a speech developmental disorder with unknown cause and heterogeneous manifestations. There are several approaches for the SSD intervention, but only few involve activities that focus on auditory perceptual, cognitive-linguistic and speech production addressed to all Brazilian Portuguese (BP) sounds. OBJECTIVE: To present a Phonological Stimulation Program (PSP) (Study 1) and to verify the effectiveness of the PSP (Study 2). METHODS: For the study 1 characteristics and activities to be addressed were selected. PSP consists of 12 weekly sessions with seven specific activities implemented in each session and designed for all BP consonantal sounds. Fourteen children aged between 60 and 95 months, diagnosed with SSD and presenting, PCC-R value between 65% and 95% participated in study 2. All children were submitted to 20 individual sessions, four sessions for initial evaluation, 12 sessions of PSP and four sessions for final evaluation. The assessment tests used for the effectiveness analysis were: phonology test which includes a Picture Naming task (PN) and an Imitation of Words task (IW), Speech Stimulability Test (SST), Speech Inconsistency Index (SII) and Phonological Sensitivity Test-Auditory version (PST-A). PCC, PCC-R and PDI indexes, the percentage of phonological processes and the number of different types of phonological processes were calculated based on the two phonology tasks. RESULTS: PSP development (Study 1) comprised all BP sounds allocated into six classes of sounds, each one stimulated in two consecutive sessions. The seven proposed activities were applied likewise in the 12 sessions: only target sounds and stimuli differed in each session. The activities involved auditory perception, speech production and phonological awareness tasks. In Study 2, PSP showed a significant difference in children with SSD, regardless of age and SSD severity commitment to the following measures that were analyzed in both the pre-and post-PSP evaluations: PCC-R, PCC, PDI, Consonant Cluster Simplification (CCS) in IW task, Stop Devoicing (SD), different types of phonological processes, and number of absent sounds. Furthermore the significant difference between pre-and post-PSP based on child age depended of: Liquid Simplification (LS) in IW task, CCS in PN task and Final Consonant Simplification (FCS) in IW and PN. The significant differences between pre-and post-PSP depended on phonological severity (PCC-R): PDI in PN task and PST-A in 'Odd one out' Alliteration task. The results suggested that activities proposed in the PSP were effective to improve children with SSD. Items showed no significant difference between pre-and post-PSP evaluations were: LS in PN task, SD in IW task and Fricative Devoicing (FD) in PN and IW tasks, PST-A in 'Go together' Alliteration, 'Go together' Rhyming and 'Odd one out' Rhyming tasks, and SII. These pre-PSP evaluation tests were already adequate in most of the children. Importantly, in the evaluation post-PEF children who still p...
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