Analyses of the verbal fluency of deaf individuals with oral Brazilian Portuguese language and users of the Brazilian Sign Language / Análise da Fluência Verbal de Surdos Oralizados em Português Brasileiro e Usuários de Língua Brasileira de Sinais

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

This research aimed to determine the verbal fluency profile of deaf individuals with oral Brazilian Portuguese language and users of the Brazilian Sign Language, in relation to speech rate, type of disfluencies and frequency of speech disruptions, in the oral and multimodal production. The fluency profile was investigated through the perceptual analyses of the speech samples of 12 deaf adults with severe congenital hearing loss. The adopted methodology and the fluency analyses were based on the Brazilian protocol of fluency analyses. The obtained data was analysed within the group, that is, comparing the oral production of the deaf individuals to their multimodal production, and between groups, that is, comparing the oral production of the deaf individuals to the oral production of hearing individuals speakers of the Brazilian Portuguese. The results indicate that the fluency of speech of deaf individuals, in the multimodal and in the oral production, are different than hearing individuals. The speech rate of deaf individuals is slower than that presented by hearing individuals. In relation to the type of disfluencies presented, the deaf individuals present different results than that observed in hearing individuals (except in the oral roduction for the common disfluencies category). The frequency of the speech disruptions presented by the deaf individuals is superior to that of the hearing group (except for the multimodal production for the percentage of speech discontinuity category). This study emphasizes the need of more research about the verbal fluency of deaf individuals.

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surdez adults fluency deaf speech fluência fala adultos sign language língua de sinais

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