Oral Language in Children With Down Syndrome: Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
研究概览
简要总结
The objective of this research is to verify the language of children with Down syndrome concerning lexical, syntactic and semantic aspects using MLU. The hypothesis is that children with Down syndrome will present low performance, regarding not only the quantitative measures as MLU-m, MLU-w, GM-1 and GM-2, but also regarding the qualitative aspects of their production, when compared to children with typical development.
详细描述
One of the alternatives to observe and assess language development and language disorders is to analyze spontaneous language samples, which allos the identification of qualitative and quantitative aspects. The analysis involves the MLU-morphemes, MLU-words and words classes. All words produced are analyzed, including interjections, adverbs and adjectives.Word classes with grammatical characteristics present lower averages, as prepositions and conjunctions. Reference parameters are the ones of the spoken language. The objective assessment with qualitative and quantitative data may help the speech and language pathologist/therapist to determine therapeutic guidelines to each patient.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 3 Years 至 10 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •genetic diagnosis of Down syndrome
- •good health conditions
- •normal results on audiologic evaluation
- •pediatric and ear, nose and throat periodic check ups.
- •attend speech-language therapy at the Speech Language Pathology Laboratory in Syndromes and Sensorimotor Deficits (SLPL-SSD) of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.
排除标准
- •submission to long term hospitalizations due to heart diseases and major respiratory airway infections, that may interfere in the child's global development
- •presence of visual or auditory important deficits