Habilidades do desenvolvimento infantil em crianças com Doença Falciforme: enfoque na linguagem

Abstract

Child development skills in sickle cell disease: focus on language The Sickle Cell Disease is an inherited autosomal recessive hemolytic alteration with great clinical variability and epidemiological importance involving african descent. Acute complications are usually related to vascular occlusion, causing musculoskeletal and abdominal pain and chronic involvement of multiple organs and systems. These complications involve the central nervous system, causing strokes or silent cerebral infarcts. There is evidence that the cumulative effect of these complications associated with environmental factors and genotype interfere with cognitive, language, personal-social and motor performance, leading to decreased academic performance at school age and reflecting on the quality of life of these individuals. The objectives of this study were to verify the child development skills, with a focus on language, in preschool children with sickle cell disease without proven stroke compared to healthy children for the disease; verify the influence of motor, personal-social and cognitive aspects on language development; and verify the influence of environmental factors on child development. Thirty-four children (17 with Sickle Cell Disease-SCDG and 17 without the disease-Control Group: CG) with chronological age between one and five years and 11 months, underwent assessment of motor, cognitive, personal-social, linguistic and psycholinguistic skills through the following instruments, according to their age: DENVER