Hearing, language, motor and social skills in the child development: a screening proposal

Abstract

Purpose: to analyze the hearing, language, motor and social skills of children and propose a screening of child development. Methods: 129 preschool children of both sexes, aged between three and six years old, enrolled in educational institutions and 25 teachers of kindergarten from public and private institutions, with no history of hearing disorders, with type A tympanometric curves and the presence of acoustic reflexes participated. For the children, the neuropsychomotor test, Denver II, and the evaluation of sound localization and temporal ordination of three verbal and non-verbal sounds were applied. For the educators responsible for the children, the Scale of Auditory Behaviors (SAB), was used. Results: most participants with normal SAB presented hearing abilities or standard Denver II; while in the amended SAB group, most participants presented alterations in Denver II or in the auditory abilities tests. It was found, also, that part of the children with standard Denver II were pointed, by the educators, as misbehaving in SAB. Conclusion: the combination of the findings of the Denver II, hearing tests of sound localization and temporal ordination and the SAB Scale is useful in the characterization of child development and, thus, the use of these three instruments for screening in this age group is recommended.

Association between auditory temporal and visual processing in reading skill

“…An essential aspect for the proficiency in reading is the temporal sequence processing of auditory and visual information, which enables the forming of precise representations of the order of sounds in a word and the visual sequencing of letters [4][5][6][7][8] . The auditory temporal processing may be defined as the perception of change in sound within a specific time period; i.e., it refers to the ability of noticing or distinguishing auditory stimuli presented in quick succession 9 .…”

Neuropsychomotor development assessment of children aged 0 to 5 in early childhood public education centers

“…The general results of this research are in agreement with other studies 9,10,27 that emphasize the need of preventive and intervening actions related to the neuropsychomotor development, with a wider health perspective, including in the school environment, aiming at furnishing an overall development of the children that spend a great part of the day in the early childhood education centers. In addition, there's a need to look attentively into language, and biological and environmental risk factors related to this area 28 so as to implement stimulation and follow-up programs 21 with the use of complementary tools 29 .…”

New trends in instruments for child development screening in Brazil: a systematic review

“…It is important to highlight that six studies included only children under two years of age [11][12][13][14][15][16] . For the most part, the target populations were children with normal development 11,12,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] or children at-risk for delays 14,16,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] . Two studies included children with confirmed disability diagnoses, such as cerebral palsy 37 and microcephaly 13 .…”

“…Denver II (21,24,29). many of those studies used the screening tests according to their respective purposes, such as verifying the incidence of suspicion of development delays and searching for relationships between risk factors and developmental outcomes in the infant population.…”