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Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children
Evaluation of the phonological working memory (PWM) through repetition of nonwords can provide important information on the linguistic abilities of children, thus differentiating those with and without communication disorders. Objective: The aim of this study was to obtain reference values in the No...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5467382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21499657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572009000700011 |
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author | HAGE, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos GRIVOL, Márcia Aparecida |
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description | Evaluation of the phonological working memory (PWM) through repetition of nonwords can provide important information on the linguistic abilities of children, thus differentiating those with and without communication disorders. Objective: The aim of this study was to obtain reference values in the Nonword Repetition Test (NWRT) in order to investigate the performance of children without language disorders concerning this type of memory. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 480 normal children of both genders aged 4 years to 8 years and 11 months, attending preschool and elementary school. The NWRT consisted of repeating 20 (children up to 4 years) or 40 (for children aged 5 years or more) invented words with 2 to 5 syllables. The results were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. Comparison between ages and between the number of syllables in nonwords was performed by the Tukey's multiple-comparison test and one-way analysis of variance, at a significance value of p<0.05. Results: There was statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in performance between children of different age groups, except between 7- and 8-year-olds. The analysis also showed statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in the number of syllables between the different age groups. Conclusions: The reference values obtained indicated an improvement in performance with the increase of age of children, indicating an improvement in the storage of verbal material in the PWM. The performance was worsened with the increase in the number of syllables in words, demonstrating that the greater the number of syllables, the greater is the difficulty in storing verbal material. |
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spelling | pubmed-54673822017-06-19 Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children HAGE, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos GRIVOL, Márcia Aparecida J Appl Oral Sci Paper presented at the: 16th Academic Conference of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology of the Bauru School of Dentistry “Dr. Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga” Evaluation of the phonological working memory (PWM) through repetition of nonwords can provide important information on the linguistic abilities of children, thus differentiating those with and without communication disorders. Objective: The aim of this study was to obtain reference values in the Nonword Repetition Test (NWRT) in order to investigate the performance of children without language disorders concerning this type of memory. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 480 normal children of both genders aged 4 years to 8 years and 11 months, attending preschool and elementary school. The NWRT consisted of repeating 20 (children up to 4 years) or 40 (for children aged 5 years or more) invented words with 2 to 5 syllables. The results were subjected to descriptive statistical analysis. Comparison between ages and between the number of syllables in nonwords was performed by the Tukey's multiple-comparison test and one-way analysis of variance, at a significance value of p<0.05. Results: There was statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in performance between children of different age groups, except between 7- and 8-year-olds. The analysis also showed statistically significant difference (p<0.05) in the number of syllables between the different age groups. Conclusions: The reference values obtained indicated an improvement in performance with the increase of age of children, indicating an improvement in the storage of verbal material in the PWM. The performance was worsened with the increase in the number of syllables in words, demonstrating that the greater the number of syllables, the greater is the difficulty in storing verbal material. Faculdade De Odontologia De Bauru - USP 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC5467382/ /pubmed/21499657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572009000700011 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Paper presented at the: 16th Academic Conference of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology of the Bauru School of Dentistry “Dr. Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga” HAGE, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos GRIVOL, Márcia Aparecida Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title | Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title_full | Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title_fullStr | Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title_full_unstemmed | Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title_short | Reference values of nonword repetition test for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children |
title_sort | reference values of nonword repetition test for brazilian portuguese-speaking children |
topic | Paper presented at the: 16th Academic Conference of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology of the Bauru School of Dentistry “Dr. Kátia de Freitas Alvarenga” |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5467382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21499657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572009000700011 |
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