Abstract
To characterize neuropsychological aspects of 10-year-old children. Out of 30 children, 26 cognitively normal 10-year-old public school students answered tests extracted from Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery: Children's Revision. The study was transversal. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were carried out. Most of the 10-year-old children retold a story (69.2%), understood it making correct inference (84.6%) and reproduced it adequately in writing (76.9%)--14.9% was the average number of incorrectly written words and 0.179 was the errors per written word coefficient. Besides, 53.8% showed logical thought process and 73.1% had a correct notion of "x more than...". They got five out of eight in the visuo-spatial test, an intermediary result. These results show that the tertiary areas of units II and III are developed in most 10-year-old children. The most frequent types of written mistakes were: oral influence (26.3%), multiple representation (22.5%) and omission (18.4%). As to coding principles, the mostly uncomplied with rule was vowel nasalization at end of syllable (23,53%). Ten-year-old children in the studied population understood and reproduced a story orally and in writing with a low coefficient error/word. The majority completed the visuospatial tests and presented logical thought process. When "x more than..." notion is absent it may be an indicator that all is not well in the reading/writing process.
Highlights
Descritores: Testes de linguagem; Compreensão; Percepção visual; Percepção espacial; Criança. This is a small set of tests extracted from the LuriaNebraska Neuropsychological Battery-Children’s Revision (LNNB-C)(1), which proved especially sensitive in identifying language alterations and has been used for about 17 years in a Speech Therapy Service of a public hospital for individuals of different ages and levels of schooling with complaints of difficulties in oral and/ or written language
Knowledge of the linguistic and verbal performance of cognitively normal children may show the process of neuromaturation in the 10-year-old age group. This knowledge may contribute towards the health of the child and its quality of life, as it will allow the clinician to outline the development profile that will direct treatment over the rehabilitation process
The sample was composed of 26 children of 10-yearsof-age, where15 (57.7%) was female
Summary
This is a small set of tests extracted from the LuriaNebraska Neuropsychological Battery-Children’s Revision (LNNB-C)(1), which proved especially sensitive in identifying language alterations and has been used for about 17 years in a Speech Therapy Service of a public hospital for individuals of different ages and levels of schooling with complaints of difficulties in oral and/ or written language. The tests are based on Luria’s neuropsychological approach[2], which was validated by modern techniques, such as those of Bhimani et al[3]. Knowledge of the linguistic and verbal performance of cognitively normal children may show the process of neuromaturation in the 10-year-old age group This knowledge may contribute towards the health of the child and its quality of life, as it will allow the clinician to outline the development profile that will direct treatment over the rehabilitation process.
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