Débora Maria Befi-Lopes|Letícia Farias de Azevedo Leão|Aparecido José Couto Soares
Relationships between chronological and linguistic age and phonological awareness in children with developmental language disorder
Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo|Universidade de São Paulo
abstract purpose verify whether relation linguistic age performance phonological awareness children presented developmental language disorder methods retrospective study comprising 53 children developmental language disorder aged 4 7 years old language disorder diagnosis followed inclusion criteria internationally described brazilian standardized tests language assessment used children underwent phonological awareness linguistic skills assessment via standardized tests data went statistical analysis correlation analysis pvalue performed pearsons test regression analysis models used expressive receptive linguistic age independent variables performance phonological awareness dependent variable p0036 p 0048 results data indicated strong correlation language age phonological awareness skills children language developmental disorder strong correlation syllabic awareness linguistic age found well addition phonemic awareness correlated chronological age correlation tests confirmed regression analysis conclusion data indicated strong correlation linguistic age phonological awareness children developmental language disorders findings raise discussion regarding phonemic skills children condition literacy process