Cerebrovascular disease: language acquisition in infants and preschool children

Doença cérebrovascular: aquisição da linguagem em criânças e pré escolares

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CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN INFANTS AND PRESCHOOL CHILDREN (ABSTRACT)^*, DISSERTATION. CAMPINAS, 2002

KARINA TAMAROZZI DE OLIVEIRA.^**

Cerebrovascular disease (CVD) is a common cause of acquired aphasia in children (AAC) as much as other disabilities. There are many reports in medical literature related to language assessment, but very little concerning details of linguistic elements. Our objective is describe the language evaluation with phonetic-phonological, syntactic, lexical, pragmatic, discursive narrative characteristics and, perceptive-cognitive notion, to settle the basis for subsequent acquisition of reading and writing.

The AAC diagnostic characteristic was looked, considering: precocious language, hemispherical asymmetry with involvement of left hemisphere and, parallel to pre-verbal communication as beginning of language development in children.

We evaluated 10 children, disposed as 5 experimental subjects (ES), and 5 controls (CG), being 4 males and 1 female, chronologically aged until 5 years and 11 months, with normal threshold hearing in both groups, and composing a preschool group for language evaluation. Two subjects in EG group had lesions in left hemisphere (S1 and S5), one in right hemisphere (S4) and two, bilateral lesions (S2 and S3). CVD was ischaemic type in S1, S2, S3 and S5, and haemorrhagic in S4, confirmed in the acute phase through clinical neurological examination, and image. All children were attended by pediatric neurologist of the Department of Neurology of UNICAMP.

The qualitative analysis of language in 5 children through the application of protocols, standardized tests of language and neurological evaluation with complementation of laboratory in organic liquids and image exams, become possible to correlate these results with all subjects.

Our study with 5 children with CVD in preschool age revealed: specific language compromising in learning processes identified as perceptive cognitive type, in 3; discursive narrative, in 2; phonetic-phonological, syntatic, semantic lexical, pragmatic, and oro facial praxis, in each one.

KEY WORDS: cerebrovascular disease, language acquisition, childhood.

**Address: Departamento de Neurologia, FCM / UNICAMP, Caixa Postal 6111, 13083-970 Campinas SP, Brasil. E-mail: [e-mail]

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Doença cérebrovascular: aquisição da linguagem em criânças e pré escolares (Resumo). Dissertação de Mestrado, UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Área: Ciências Médicas). Orientadora: Maria Valeriana Leme de Moura Ribeiro.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  19 July 2002
• Date of issue
  June 2002