Habilidades do desenvolvimento em crianças com hipotireoidismo congênito: enfoque na comunicação / Development skills in children with congenital hypothyroidism: focus on communication

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

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The congenital hypothyroidism, one of the metabolism alterations detected through the neonatal screening, may cause alterations in the individuals global development. The objective of this study was to draw the profile of the development skills in children with congenital hypothyroidism and verify possible influences of the clinical history data in the drawn profile. It had assessed, through Early Languagem Milestone Scale and Inventário Portage Operacionalizado, 35 children (23 of the feminine gender and 12 of the masculine) with congenital hypothyroidism detected by the neonatal screening. The children belonged to the age group from 2 to 36 months and accomplished treatment with hormonal replacement for at least one month. The clinical history data were obtained through interview with the legal responsible for the children and handbooks analysis. In assessement through Early Languagem Milestone Scale, 11 children presented altered performance in auditory expressive function, 2 in visual function and 1 in auditory receptive function. In assessement through the Inventário Portage Operacionalizado, 7 children presented altered performance in the language area, 5 in cognitive area, 4 in motor and social areas and 3 in self-care area. Influences of the clinical history data were not observed in the obtained result. It was concluded that most of the assessed children in this study presented adequate performance for the evaluated skills. For the children with altered performance, larger deficit was observed in language area, mainly in expressive aspects and cognitive area. The influence of the clinical history data was not proven in the profile drawn for the development skills. However, tendency for appropriate performance in the assessed skills was observed among the children that accomplished the neonatal screening, received the diagnosis and began the treatment for the congenital hypothyroidism earlier and that received higher dose of thyroxine in the beginning of the treatment.

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hipotireoidismo congênito desenvolvimento da linguagem desenvolvimento infantil language development child development congenital hypothyroidism

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