Luciana Mendonça Alves

Federal University of Minas Gerais | UFMG · Departamento de Fonoaudiologia

Purpose to assess knowledge about learning disorders among basic education teachers and intern teachers in Brazilian public and private schools. Methods two questionnaires administered to teachers from several Brazilian schools, selected by random sampling. The first questionnaire collected sociodemographic data, and the second assessed knowledge...

Purpose to assess knowledge about learning disorders among basic education teachers and intern teachers in Brazilian public and private schools. Methods two questionnaires administered to teachers from several Brazilian schools, selected by random sampling. The first questionnaire collected sociodemographic data, and the second assessed knowledge...

Purpose to verify the progress of error typology and percentage of self-correction in text reading and their association with reading fluency in second/third graders (group 1) and fifth/sixth graders (group 2) and the influence of education level on the typology of errors and percentage of self-correction. Methods an observational, analytical, and...

Purpose to verify the progress of error typology and percentage of self-correction in text reading and their association with reading fluency in second/third graders (group 1) and fifth/sixth graders (group 2) and the influence of education level on the typology of errors and percentage of self-correction. Methods an observational, analytical, and...

Objective To describe and analyze auditory and academic complaints of students and employees of a federal public university. Methods The study was carried out using a non-probabilistic. The EAPAC Scale with adaptations was used to fulfill the research objectives. It has 14 questions about complaints related to listening skills and 12 questions rel...

Objective To describe and analyze auditory and academic complaints of students and employees of a federal public university. Methods The study was carried out using a non-probabilistic. The EAPAC Scale with adaptations was used to fulfill the research objectives. It has 14 questions about complaints related to listening skills and 12 questions rel...

This study aimed to conduct a bibliographical review on neuropsychological deficits in children with sleep apnea. An integrative review on theoretical literature was used to achieve the purpose, analyzing, thereby, specific literature from the last ten years describing neuropsychological aspects of children with sleep apnea. Database consulted were...

Purpose to describe the profile of fluency concerning the typology of disfluencies, speed, and frequency of disruptions in spontaneous speech, reading, and retelling; to compare the fluency profile in adults who stutter in spontaneous speech, reading, and retelling of text. Methods The present work is a cross-sectional comparative study with a sam...

Purpose to verify whether fluency and reading comprehension vary throughout the third year of elementary school and can be used as performance indicators in reading. Methods this is a prospective longitudinal study. 53 children participated in the study, regardless of gender. Four assessments were carried out throughout the year, using the LEPIC s...

Purpose to verify whether fluency and reading comprehension vary throughout the third year of elementary school and can be used as performance indicators in reading. Methods this is a prospective longitudinal study. 53 children participated in the study, regardless of gender. Four assessments were carried out throughout the year, using the LEPIC s...

Purpose to describe the profile of fluency concerning the typology of disfluencies, speed, and frequency of disruptions in spontaneous speech, reading, and retelling; to compare the fluency profile in adults who stutter in spontaneous speech, reading, and retelling of text. Methods The present work is a cross-sectional comparative study with a sam...

Objetivo Investigar os efeitos da equitação clássica nas funções cognitivas de crianças e adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social. Método Trata-se de uma pesquisa do tipo pré-experimental, com avaliação das funções cognitivas de crianças e adolescentes, pré e pós-prática de equitação. Foram recrutados 70 participantes (48 crianças entre...

Background International studies performed during the periods of social isolation highlighted the potential loss of student's learning skills. The present study fills a gap in Brazilian research on this topic and focuses on the development of reading fluency. Objective To investigate the development of the reading fluency of students in the early y...

This study aimed to verify the association between the resources of the family environment and teenage reading. A total of 106 adolescents of both sexes, aged between 11 and 16 years, without learning difficulties, participated in the study. For data collection, a narrative text, a multiple-choice questionnaire about the text and an adapted Family...

This study aimed to verify the association between the resources of the family environment and teenage reading. A total of 106 adolescents of both sexes, aged between 11 and 16 years, without learning difficulties, participated in the study. For data collection, a narrative text, a multiple-choice questionnaire about the text and an adapted Family...

Introduction: reading fluency is a measure capable of objectively evaluating the performance of students in oral reading. Objective: to evaluate the use of reading fluency as an indicator of reading competence to be used in inclusive education. Methods: 121 students from the 3rd to the 5th year of elementary school participated in the study. 31 of...

Purpose: to characterize the performance in oral narrative discourse of adolescents from 6 to 9 years of age from an elementary school, as well as to verify the influence of gender, school year, age, performance in oral language tests, memory, and appointment of figures. Methods: 100 adolescents of both genders from the sixth to the ninth years...

Purpose To ascertain the performance of adolescent’s phonemic awareness and corroborate the association between this skill and reading. Methods Eighty-three adolescents participated in the study consisting of 58 girls and 25 boys aged between 11 and 16 years of age all being enrolled in the 6th to 9th grades of secondary elementary school in two p...

Purpose To validate a self-report questionnaire to assess the central auditory processing in adults. Methods The instrument was tested and validated with 123 university students aged 18 to 59 years, without hearing changes or history of treatment for central auditory processing disorder. The participants were submitted to the Gaps-in-Noise and spe...

Introdução: a fluência de leitura é uma medida capaz de avaliar de forma objetiva o desempenho de escolares em leitura oral. Objetivo: avaliar a utilização da fluência de leitura como um indicador de competência leitora a ser utilizado na educação inclusiva. Métodos: participaram do estudo 121 escolares do 3° ao 5° ano do ensino fundamental, destes...

Objective: to analyze the consistency of responses of evaluators and to verify the usability of the perception and analysis of SOLAR (Science of Language and Reading) Methods: a non-experimental descriptive cross-sectional study. Elementary school teachers and undergraduate students of speech therapy and pedagogy participated as the judges. The jud...

Purpose: To characterize phonological processing of adolescents and to identify language skills and cognitive functions that influence their age group. Methods: 83 typical adolescents aged from 11 to 16 years of age participated in the research. Phonological awareness tests, rapid automatic naming, neuropsychological assessment and reading were...

Purpose: To verify the influence of schooling on reading speed measures in Elementary School and Junior High, also aims to explore the levels of accuracy of the variables of reading speed in the epidemiological investigation stages of cases. Methods: 535 students from the 2nd to the 9th grade from a private school and a state school system parti...

Background/aims: Studies of people with dyslexia have pointed to the ability to perceive the amplitude envelope rise time ("beat" perception) as a possible cause of phonological processing (PhP) difficulties in this population. However, there are very few studies about the relationships between such skills in the non-dyslexic school population. M...

RESUMO: A fluência de leitura é tida como uma meta no desenvolvimento da leitura oral e pode, de forma mais rápida e objetiva, indicar a evolução do desempenho dos estudantes. A Base Nacional Comum Curricular do Brasil prevê que, entre o 3º e 5º ano do Ensino Fundamental, o escolar deve ler de forma autônoma e fluente com textualidade adequada. Ass...

Introduction Research with tinnitus patients presenting with hearing loss and normal hearing subjects have verified that tinnitus interferes with auditory processing. One treatment option for this symptom consists of tinnitus habituation therapy. Objective To determine the influence of tinnitus habituation therapy on auditory abilities, on the self...

Objetivo O estudo apresenta o processo de desenvolvimento de um instrumento para avaliação coletiva da fluência e da compreensão de leitura de escolares do ensino fundamental II e verifica o efeito da escolaridade no desempenho no instrumento. Método Participaram do estudo 100 escolares regularmente matriculados do 6º ao 9º ano no ensino fundament...

A compreensão configura um processo refinado, no qual as menores unidades de um texto são progressivamente integradas entre si e com o conhecimento do leitor. É possível verificar essa habilidade por meio do reconto. Este trabalho teve como objetivo realizar estudo da leitura e estruturas narrativas no reconto de escolares do 2º e 3º anos do Ensino...

Resumo O presente artigo se propõe a apresentar uma escala brasileira de avaliação dos parâmetros de fluência leitora, denominada Escala de Percepção de Fluência Leitora. O propósito da escala é avaliar os principais domínios relacionados a fluência leitora, de forma a direcionar os avaliadores para um melhor entendimento do funcionamento de tal ha...

Objective: to describe the occurrence of self-correction among adolescents in the rapid automatic naming test and the influence of schooling, type of visual stimulation and cognitive and language skills. Methods: 83 typical adolescents from 11 to 16 years old, enrolled from 6th to 9th grade of two public schools in Belo Horizonte participated in t...

RESUMO Objetivo Descrever o perfil e a prevalência do tipo, grau de perda auditiva e dispositivo eletrônico utilizado pelos usuários do sistema de frequência modulada de um Serviço de Atenção à Saúde Auditiva. Métodos Estudo transversal retrospectivo. Foram analisados 309 prontuários de pacientes usuários de sistema de frequência modulada. As variá...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the development and progress of reading fluency of secondary elementary school pupils in schooling grades that were selected for the study programme. Methods 232 elementary school pupils with ages ranging from 11 to 15 years of age, from both public and private schools were recorded reading a t...

Purpose Characterize and compare melodic variation and reading speed and verify their evolution throughout the development of schooling. Methods The reading of 78 Elementary School (2nd to 5th grade) students was analyzed using the Praat program with regards to the parameters of melodic variation (F0) and reading speed (Duration). Statistical meas...

Purpose To map the profile of Brazilian Speech Therapists who report acting in Educational Speech Therapy, with regard to aspects related to training, performance and professional experience. Methods Retrospective study, based on secondary database analysis of the Federal Council of Hearing and Speech Sciences on the questionnaires reporting actin...

Introduction: The effective development of reading and writing skills requires the concerted action of several abilities, one of which is phonological processing. One of the main components of phonological processing is rapid automatized naming (RAN)—the ability to identify and recognize a given item by the activation and concomitant articulation o...

O Sistema de Frequência Modulada é um dispositivo de tecnologia assistida que melhora os meios eletrônicos para a recepção eficiente da mensagem falada com a presença de ruído e acústica no ambiente. É parte fundamental na habilitação, reabilitação e educação de usuários de aparelhos de amplificação sonora individual ou implantes cocleares. Objetiv...

This study investigates the role of prosody in the reading aloud of dyslexic children. Ten dyslexic and 30 non-dyslexic control children (mean age 9.5 and 9.9 years, respectively) were recorded when reading a text of appropriate level and subsequently asked to retell it and tested on its comprehension. The data were analysed acoustically by the Win...

Purpose: to analyze e to describe the skills’ performance of the phonological processing components in subjects with Attention Deficit - Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Methods: it is a descriptive analytical study of the evaluation data of the phonological processing skills of 45 subjects, with ages between 7 and 16 years, with a multiprofessional...

PURPOSE: to relate respiratory characteristics with cognitive-linguistic skills performance of children from a public school of the region of Belo Horizonte. METHOD: a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study. From the 180 enrolled children, 131 met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We evaluated 66 children in the 4th grade and 65 c...

PURPOSE: to relate respiratory characteristics with cognitive-linguistic skills performance of children from a public school of the region of Belo Horizonte. METHOD: a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study. From the 180 enrolled children, 131 met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We evaluated 66 children in the 4th grade and 65 c...

PURPOSE: to investigate the performance of deaf children users of the Brazilian Language of Signs in expressive vocabulary test. METHOD: the sample was composed by 64 subjects (32 children in the study group and 32 in the control group) that were divided in 4 groups by age (5, 6, 7 and 8-year old). All children were submitted to the Language Test...

PURPOSE: to investigate the performance of deaf children users of the Brazilian Language of Signs in expressive vocabulary test. METHOD: the sample was composed by 64 subjects (32 children in the study group and 32 in the control group) that were divided in 4 groups by age (5, 6, 7 and 8-year old). All children were submitted to the Language Test f...

Purpose: compare students’ performance on tasks that depends on memory abilities according to school level (from 2nd to 5th of the basic education), private and public school, and with or without learning alterations. Methods: evaluation of the immediate auditory memory through tasks such like repetition of real words, non-words and numbers, and th...

Objective: to investigate teachers’ perception of the quality of life and voice in an Methodist Institution. Method: the protocol of speech evaluation in occupacional status was applied on 100 teachers with the Voice Quality Life, both based on the state's voice in the last two weeks prior to application. After answering the survey, the teachers at...

Objective: to investigate the theorical-practical knowledge about dyslexia in educators in public and private schools. Methods: the information was collected through the application of an individual questionnaire with a sample of 103 teachers linked to 14 institutions. Results/discussion: among the respondents, 97% were female, 39% taught the l...

OBJETIVO: investigar a nomeação seriada rápida em crianças de uma escola pública e uma privada, com e sem queixas de problemas escolares. MÉTODOS: participaram do estudo 137 crianças dos gêneros masculino e feminino, com idade entre 7 e 11 anos, da cidade de Belo Horizonte, matriculadas no ensino fundamental, entre o 2º e o 5º ano. Foi aplicado o T...

PURPOSE: to investigate rapid serial naming of children in a public and private school- with and without complaints of school problems. METHODS: 138 children of both genders took part in the study, with age ranging between 7 and 11 years, of the city of Belo Horizonte, fundamental teaching, between the 2nd and the 5th year. The Test of- Rapid Autom...

The ability for text comprehension was verified in 18 deaf individuals with deep hearing loss (10 sinalizers and 8 oralized). A text was presented to them for silent reading, and after reading it the individuals answered an objective questionnaire with no consulting to the text to verify the ability of interpretation. Both groups had a good percent...

O estudo teve como objetivo verificar o perfil dos pacientes com transtornos de aprendizagem e seus possíveis sintomas relacionados aos distúrbios da fala, em uma Clínica-escola de Fonoaudiologia. Foi realizada análise de 69 prontuários de escolares entre 6 a 14 anos de idade atendidos no setor de distúrbio de aprendizagem. Como resultado foi obser...

Objetivo: Analisar, do ponto de vista fonético, por meio de medidas acústicas e perceptivas, os aspectos prosódicos temporais presentes na leitura em voz alta de escolares com e sem dislexia, a fim de identificar diferenças de desempenho entre os dois tipos de leitores que possam apontar para características peculiares da dislexia. Métodos: Gravaçã...

A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo conhecer como ocorre o processo de inclusão de crianças com necessidades especiais no Ensino Fundamental, como acontece a comunicação entre escolas de educação especial e regular, bem como a atuação dos inúmeros profissionais envolvidos, enfocando o papel do fonoaudiólogo. Como metodologia, realizou-se um deli...

This research aimed to investigate the inclusion process of children with special needs in Primary Schools, interaction among regular schools and special education centers, as well as the role of the many professionals involved, focusing specifically on the speech therapist. The method used was a descriptive analytical survey; a questionnaire was a...

Este estudo teve por objetivo conhecer as políticas de inclusão da rede pública em Betim/MG, como é a atuação fonoaudiológica neste âmbito, e verificar qual é o conhecimento da Fonoaudiologia no processo de inclusão. Foi realizada uma pesquisa em 6 escolas infantis regulares que atendem crianças de 0 a 5 anos, por meio de aplicação de questionários...

Objetivo: Analisar, do ponto de vista fonético, por meio de medidas acústicas e perceptivas, os aspectos prosódicos temporais presentes na leitura em voz alta de escolares com e sem dislexia, a fim de identificar diferenças de desempenho entre os dois tipos de leitores que possam apontar para características peculiares da dislexia. Métodos: Gravaçã...

La dyslexie est aujourd'hui couramment associée à un déficit des capacités phonologiques. Les données concernant les habiletés en phonologie suprasegmentale du lecteur déficient, plus rares, ont cependant montré l'implication de la prosodie dans les processus de décodage et l'accès à la compréhension en lecture. Nous avons constitué le corpus (DySp...