Enma Mariángel Ortiz Torres’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Santa Maria and other places

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Bilinguismo e reconhecimento de fala no silêncio e no ruído em adultos
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October 2019

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Método Participaram da pesquisa 87 indivíduos entre a faixa etária de 18 e 55 anos de idade, normo-ouvintes, os quais foram distribuídos em: grupo controle, composto de 30 monolíngues falantes do português brasileiro; grupo estudo alemão, 31 bilíngues simultâneos falantes do português e do alemão como segunda língua; grupo estudo italiano, formado por 26 bilíngues sucessivos, falantes do português e do italiano como segunda língua. Por meio do teste Listas de Sentenças em Português Brasileiro, foram obtidos seus Limiares de Reconhecimento de Sentenças no Silêncio e no Ruído. Resultados No silêncio, não houve diferenças estatisticamente significantes de desempenho tanto quando comparados os indivíduos bilíngues e monolíngues como quando comparados os grupos bilíngues. Por sua vez, no ruído, verificou-se diferença significante entre os grupos bilíngues, em relação ao monolíngue. Entretanto, quando comparado o desempenho dos grupos bilíngues, não se observou diferença significante entre eles. Conclusão O bilinguismo influenciou positivamente o desenvolvimento de habilidades auditivas, que repercutiram em desempenhos superiores dos bilíngues no reconhecimento de fala na presença de ruído, e o período de aquisição da segunda língua não influenciou o desempenho dos bilíngues.

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The effect of bilingualism on cognitive and auditory abilities in normally hearing adults

February 2018

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Purpose: to evaluate and compare cognitive and auditory abilities in normally hearing monolingual and bilingual individuals. Methods: the sample consisted of 21 normally hearing individuals ranging in age between 18 and 25 years, divided into a control group of eight monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and a study group composed of 13 bilingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and German or Italian. The individuals underwent basic audiological assessments as well as assessments of cognitive and auditory figure-background abilities with the BPR-5 and SSW tests, respectively. Results: the assessment of cognitive abilities showed that bilinguals had a better performance for the general cognitive function, with a statistically significant difference, as well as for cognitive abilities of verbal, spatial and mechanical reasoning. Also, for auditory figure-background abilities, there was a statistically significant difference between the study groups, with bilinguals showing a better performance. Conclusions: based on the study groups, it was found that the bilingual subjects had a better performance of their general cognitive function, as compared with monolingual speakers, as well as in their specific cognitive abilities of verbal, spatial and mechanical reasoning, and in the auditory figure-background abilities.


Distribution of individuals in the monolingual Control Group, Portuguese-German bilingual Study Group and Portuguese-Italian bilingual Study Group regarding the total and each ear' 
Bilingualism and auditory processing abilities: performance of adults in dichotic listening tests

December 2013

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Purpose: To evaluate and compare the dichotic listening abilities in non-hearing-impaired adults monolingual speakers of the Brazilian Portuguese language (CG) and simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German (GG) bilingual speakers or successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian bilingual speakers (IG). Methods: This is about an observational, descriptive, transverse and quantitative research. The sample consisted of 87 subjects aged between 18 and 55 years, divided into: Control Group (CG), of 30 monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese; Study Group A (SGA), of 31 simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German bilingual speakers; and Study Group I (SGI), of 26 successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian speakers. The individuals were submitted to the Dichotic digits test (DDT) and to Staggered Spondaic Words (SSW). Results: The DTT results showed difference in right ear and total scores when comparing SGA to CG. Comparing the CG and the SGI, it was observed difference in right and left ears and total scores. Comparing the SGA and the SGI, no difference was observed between the groups. Results of SSW showed that both bilingual groups were significantly better in the right and left ears scores and even in total one when compared to CG. Comparing the SGA and the SGI, the SGI showed better significant scores in the right ear and total. Conclusion: Bilingual experiences seem to influence positively the ability of high predictability dichotic listening, evaluated by DDT, and the low predictability dichotic listening, evaluated by SSW test. The SSW results also showed statistically significantly better results for successive Brazilian Portuguese-Italian bilingual speakers when compared to simultaneous Brazilian Portuguese-German speakers.


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Recognition of Portuguese sentences lists test in silence and noise versus benefits for children and teenagers using hearing aids

April 2013

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PURPOSE: to evaluate children and teenagers musing hearing aids, investigate the benefit provided by sound amplification, through the Portuguese Sentences Lists Test and a benefit assessment questionnaire for children and teenagers; and to check the correlation between the results obtained from these two instruments. METHOD: 13 children and teenagers, between eight and 14 years old, both sexes, with a moderately severe hearing loss as the maximun level on the best ear, hearing aids users bilaterally for more than ten months and fitted by a Hearing Health Program were evaluated. An anamnesis was applied, then the subjects were submitted to a basic audiological evaluation, and were evaluated by the Portuguese Sentences Lists Test and a benefit assessment questionnaire for children and teenagers. RESULTS: the results obtained from the Portuguese Sentences Lists Test and the questionnaire showed the subject's benefit with the use of the hearing aids, both in silence and in noise. However, there was no statistically significant correlation between these two instruments. CONCLUSION: although statistically significant correlation has not been verified between the results obtained using two assessment instruments, through the Portuguese Sentences Lists Test, the individuals had improvement in the performance of speech recognition, using the hearing aids, both in quiet and in noise, and in response to the questionnaire, the subjects reported benefit with the use of sound amplification.


Survey and data analysis of patients treated in a hearing aids grant program

January 2013

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To establish a profile of the patients treated in a Hearing Aids Grant Program of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, by analyzing the variables: age, sex, type and degree of hearing loss, number of aided patients, adaptation type (unilateral or bilateral), and adapted ear. This is a descriptive observational study, retrospective in a cross-sectional perspective, which included patients treated between February 2006 and July 2010, totaling 1,572 individuals; RESULTS: Their ages ranged from 3 to 100 years, mostly elderly (52.8%), with no frequency difference between the sexes. The sensorineural (73.12%) and moderate (54.7%) hearing losses were the most frequent ones, except in children, in whom the degree found was more profound (45.3%). More than 99% of the patients were aided, 258 unilaterally and 1,302 bilaterally. Mostly patients presents 60 years old or more, with no frequency difference between the sexes. The sensorioneural and moderate hearing losses were the most frequent ones, except in children. More than 99% of the patients were aided and the conducts were defined based in the audiological diagnosis and patient's needs.


Figura 2. Distribuição dos indivíduos quanto à frequência do uso das próteses auditivas considerando diferentes ambientes (n=52).
Figura 3. Distribuição dos indivíduos com relação às respostas sobre o benefício proporcionado pelas próteses auditivas no ambiente doméstico (n=52).
Figura 4. Distribuição dos indivíduos com relação às respostas sobre o benefício proporcionado pelas próteses auditivas no ambiente escolar (n=52).
Evaluation of the benefit with the use of the sound amplification inchildren and teenagers

March 2012

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OBJETIVO: Avaliar o benefício proporcionado pela amplificação sonora em crianças e adolescentes atendidos pelo programa de atenção à saúde auditiva da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).MÉTODO: Participaram deste estudo 63 indivíduos com idade entre 03 e 14 anos e seus familiares. Para avaliar o benefício proporcionado pela amplificação sonora foi aplicada a Escala de Integração Auditiva Significativa para Crianças Pequenas (IT-MAIS), para as crianças com menos de 04 anos; a Escala de Integração Auditiva Significativa (MAIS), para as crianças de 04 a 07 anos e o questionário de avaliação do benefício em crianças e jovens, para os indivíduos de 08 a 14 anos.RESULTADOS: Somente um indivíduo pôde ser avaliado através da escala IT-MAIS, o qual obteve a pontuação 0 (zero), indicando ausência dos comportamentos auditivos avaliados. Dez indivíduos foram avaliados através da escala MAIS, sendo que a pontuação média encontrada na avaliação dos comportamentos auditivos foi de 19,9. Foram avaliados 52 indivíduos através do questionário de avaliação do benefício em crianças e jovens, sendo que as respostas positivas relacionadas ao benefício proporcionado pelas próteses em diferentes situações foram as mais encontradas em todos os itens.CONCLUSÃO: Foi verificado benefício proporcionado pela amplificação sonora, em diferentes situações da vida diária, tanto pela ótica do paciente, quanto de sua família. Em alguns casos, onde foi encontrado pouco ou nenhum benefício, houve influência de outras alterações clínicas, além da perda auditiva, influenciando no uso efetivo das próteses auditivas.


GRANT PROGRAM OF AUDITIVE PROSTHESIS OF UFSM: CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS TREATED

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Laryngopharyngeal reflux and bulimia nervosa: laryngeal and voice disorders

April 2011

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TEMA: Características da bulimia nervosa (BN) e do Refluxo Laringofaríngeo (RLF) e alterações vocais e laríngeas que podem decorrer da exposição da laringe ao ácido gástrico. OBJETIVO: Descrever, por meio de revisão de literatura, as características do RLF e da BN, relacionando-os com as alterações vocais e laríngeas que podem se originar da exposição da laringe ao ácido gástrico que ocorre em ambas as condições. CONCLUSÃO: A BN se caracteriza por um transtorno alimentar de causa principalmente psicológica em que ocorre ingestão compulsiva de grande quantidade de alimentos, seguida de episódios de vômitos auto-induzidos com a finalidade de evitar o ganho de peso. O RLF consiste em uma variação clínica da DRGE, na qual o fluxo retrógrado do alimento e do ácido gástrico entra em contato com a laringe e suas estruturas. Em comum, a BN e o RLF apresentam este mecanismo de regurgitação que pode atingir a laringe. Dentre os sinais e sintomas laríngeos e vocais decorrentes da regurgitação do ácido gástrico sobre a laringe estão: globus faríngeo, disfonia, rouquidão, tosse seca, disfagia, halitose, lesões inflamatórias nas pregas vocais, laringite, amigdalite, edema e eritema glótico posterior e ou de aritenóides, da região retrocricóidea e interaritenóidea, estenose subglótica, irregularidades na mucosa das pregas vocais, hipertrofia de mucosa laríngea, leucoplasia, carcinoma, laringoespasmos, granulomas, úlcera de contato, nódulos vocais, pólipos vocais, edema difuso, granuloma, fixação uni ou bilateral de aritenóides, edema de Reinke, laringomalácia, estridor, e odinofagia.

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... In fact, other behavioral research has shown that the ability to inhibit interference in a sentence interpretation task was positively correlated with L2 proficiency (Filippi et al., 2012); however, the paradigm used by Filippi et al. used was different than that used in the studies discussed above. More recently, others have also demonstrated a behavioral advantage in sentence recognition in noise in the L1 of bilinguals compared to monolinguals (Ferreira et al., 2019), while bilinguals in their L2 have been found to perform worse than monolinguals when the stimuli included a combination of words and sentences (Bsharat-Maalouf and Karawani, 2022). Importantly, Bsharat-Maalouf and Karawani (2022) also recorded electrophysiological responses to vowel sounds and found earlier auditory brain stem responses in noise in bilinguals compared to monolinguals, suggesting a different pattern of language group differences at the level of neural responses. ...

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Age of Acquisition Modulates Alpha Power During Bilingual Speech Comprehension in Noise
Bilinguismo e reconhecimento de fala no silêncio e no ruído em adultos

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... When education is introduced in indigenous groups through the adoption of an official language, the use of native language is reduced (Furniss, 2014). Bilingual education has been adopted as strategy for transmitting knowledge without reducing the use of native language (Correa Ferreira et al., 2018). It is important to strength bilingual education through educative technology to avoid the reduction on the use of indigenous languages while enhancing the acquisition of a second language. ...

The effect of bilingualism on cognitive and auditory abilities in normally hearing adults

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... One critical exception is bulimia nervosa where voice alterations have been observed. [92][93][94] Furthermore, regardless of whether the underlying cause is psychiatric or laryngeal, having a voice pathology tends to produce distress 163 as seen with dysphonia 164 and stuttering. 160 Given this and potential psychogenic disorders, laryngologists also have the challenging task of promoting psychiatric consultation and psychotherapy in a way that reduces the associated stigma, since it is cur- ...

Laryngopharyngeal reflux and bulimia nervosa: laryngeal and voice disorders

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... To minimize these long term negative consequences, the diagnosis and the efficient early intervention are necessary. 1 Despite recent technological advances in the audiologic assessment of infants and children, hearing aid fitting in this population remains a daunting task and the adaptation of such devices in the pediatric population is a quite difficult task. Even those who routinely assess very young children seek further validation of the fitting selected for a particular child. 2 The wide variability of fittings among hearing instrument manufacturers, whether programmed based on a validated fitting prescription such as NAL-NL1 or DSL 5, or the manufacturer's own proprietary algorithm underscores the need for verification of fittings. ...

Evaluation of the benefit with the use of the sound amplification inchildren and teenagers

Arquivos Internacionais de Otorrinolaringologia

... Given that "hearing" serves as the primary input for stimuli essential to second language acquisition, the connection between this sense and bilingualism is indisputable, though still under evaluation by researchers [6]. Children raised in a multilingual environment are exposed to enriched auditory experiences. ...

Bilingualism and auditory processing abilities: performance of adults in dichotic listening tests

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... Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive recording procedure that measures the electrical potentials generated from the brain which are picked up by electrodes placed on the surface of the scalp. It has been well established principally as a promising assessment tool in identifying pathologies for any brain-process related area, yet it has driven advancement in many domains including assistive device breakthroughs [5][6][7]. Here, the neurophysiological response and behavioural measures extracted from the EEG signal; namely as Auditory Evoked Potential (AEP) had led to a multitude of discoveries in research and clinical setting for auditory evaluation with an informed decision. ...

Survey and data analysis of patients treated in a hearing aids grant program

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