Electrophysiological hearing evaluation in children with phonological disorder pre and post speech therapy / Avaliação eletrofisiológica da audição em crianças com distúrbio fonológico pré e pós terapia fonoaudiológica

AUTOR(ES)

Renata Aparecida Leite

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

INTRODUCTION: the phonological disorder is a speech disorder that may occur in one or more levels that are responsible for the development of the phonological system. Such levels are: speech production and perception, and rules organization. For a normal development of the phonological system, as well as of other aspects of language, it is necessary the integrity and the adequate functioning of the auditory system, either in its peripheral or central portion. AIM: to evaluate children with phonological disorder, characterizing the auditory evoked potentials of short, middle and long latencies, and to verify the auditory evoked potential results improvement after speech therapy. METHOD: 24 children without phonological disorder (control group) and 23 children with phonological disorder (study group) were evaluated; the study group was divided in two subgroups: 12 children attending speech therapy (subgroup IA) and 11 children not attending speech therapy (subgroup IB). Children?s age ranged from eight to 11 years, and all of them underwent the ABFW Child Language Test, pure tone and speech audiometry, acoustic immitance measures, brainstem auditory evoked potential, middle latency response, and cognitive potential. Children with phonological disorder who attended speech therapy were re-evaluated after 12 sessions, and children with phonological disorder who did not attend speech therapy were re-evaluated 3 months after the initial evaluation. RESULTS: the quantitative analysis of the results showed that children with phonological disorder presented statistical difference in the latency of wave III and in the interpeaks I-III and I-V of the brainstem auditory evoked potential, and in the latency of the cognitive potential; no statistical difference was found concerning the middle latency response. Comparing the normal and altered results (qualitative analysis) between the control and study groups, it was observed that the study group presented higher percentage of altered results. After the speech therapy, it was observed results improvement of the brainstem auditory evoked potential and of the cognitive potential. CONCLUSIONS: children with phonological disorder present alteration in the brainstem auditory evoked potential and in the cognitive potential, suggesting prejudice in the brainstem auditory pathway and cortical regions, showing improvement of these potentials? results with speech therapy.

ASSUNTO(S)

criança language therapy neuronal plasticity potenciais evocados auditivos potenciais evocados auditivos de tronco encefálico terapia da linguagem auditory brain stem evoked potentials child articulation disorders p300 event-related potentials potencial evocado p300 transtornos da articulação auditory evoked potentials plasticidade neuronal

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