1. Phoniatric evaluation: relationships between a set of tests and academic difficulties
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Beatriz Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Caiuby Novaes and Carolina Christofani Sian Kencis
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Medical education ,Dictation ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Intonation (linguistics) ,Test (assessment) ,Comprehension ,Fluency ,Otorhinolaryngology ,Reading (process) ,Learning disability ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Association (psychology) ,media_common - Abstract
Introduction Learning disability has a significant relevance and can generate negative social impacts on the future of an individual if not corrected in time. Phoniatrics is an area of otorhinolaryngology responsible for evaluating, diagnosing, and referring these cases for therapy and/or complementing the multidisciplinary diagnosis. Objective To evaluate in school-aged children the association between the application of a set of tests used in the phoniatric assessment and complaints of academic difficulties. To identify which tests would show the main association with academic performance when applied individually. Methods Blind, cross-sectional study, subdivided into 4 stages. In the 1st stage, 66 children in the third year of elementary school were submitted to the set of tests of skills applied by the phoniatrician; in the 2nd stage, the physician asked the educators about complaints of academic difficulties regarding the students; in the 3rd stage the students’ Portuguese language school grade was obtained and in the 4th stage an analysis was made between the data. Results The educator identified complaints of academic difficulties in 27.2% of the 66 students. There was a statistically significant association between academic difficulties and the following tests of skills: dictation of words and pseudowords, dictation of words, dictation of pseudowords, rhyming, phonemic synthesis, and in the reading test; fluency, intonation and comprehension of the text and morals were analyzed in the reading test. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, the tests selected to comprise the final model, showing greater association with the academic difficulty complaint were: dictation of words, intonation in reading and comprehension of the morals of the story. Conclusion The tests identified as the most relevant in identifying academic difficulties were dictation of words, intonation in reading and comprehension of the morals of the story. However, the other tests that were part of the phoniatric consultation allowed the observation of the individual and their functioning abilities, leading to a better assessment of the case, regarding aspects not directly related to the pedagogical one.
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- 2023