Habilidades de discriminação auditiva em crianças com desvios fonológicos evolutivos

Abstract

This research investigated the ability of hearing discrimination in 41 children with Phonological Disorders (PD), being 16 females and 25 males, with ages between 4 years old and 8.2 years old, who were under treatment or had been treated at CELF/SAF at the UFSM. The research aimed at finding out if the altered phonemes in the phonological system are the same which were not discriminated at the hearing discrimination test and if hearing discrimination abilities are related to the sex, age and the severity degree of PD. Data used were taken through the Picture Test for Hearing Discrimination adapted from “The Boston University Speech Sound Discrimination Picture Test” and through the Child’s Phonological Assessment (Yavas, Hernandorena & Lamprecht, 1992). After data analysis, it was observed that there was no meaningful statistical difference in performance at the hearing discrimination test between sexes and that a better performance in the test is statistically correlated to the chronological age advance. It was found that hearing discrimination inability is bigger in children with PD than in children who do not present communication disturbance. Finally, it follows that the hearing discrimination inability can be a causative or aggravating factor of PD, although it does not apply to every case.