
Marianna Momoe Nanakuma Matsumoto
University of Sao Paulo, BrazilPresentation Title:
Risk factors that influence language development
Abstract
Objective: Identify the most significant risk factors for child development by seeking the correlation between the results found by applying two risk protocols.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 194 children, aged 0 to 5 years and 11 months, who were patients at the Primary Health Care (PHC) of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Brazil from 2016 to 2020. The database was thoroughly analyzed using the R software, and the most relevant risk factors correlated, through statistical analysis, generating altered and non-altered PDL results. Altered PDL results have one or more altered axes found.
Results: Patients were mostly male, declared white, with upper-middle, lower-middle and low-income class family socioeconomic status, parental education level as high as high school, altered maternal temperament, etc.
Conclusion: The most important risk factors are: male gender, parental education level, mental health and mother's temperament. Future clinical research and work should consider risk factors for speech-language pathology and audiology screening. Furthermore, Brazilian children's public policy of PHC needs continued studies. The application of these protocols is useful to health professionals in PHC for early speech-language screening. The early identification of language disorders facilitates the bond for continuity of care to families in risk groups.
Biography
Marianna Momoe is a speech therapist and post-graduate student in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of São Paulo. She works mainly with neurodivergent children in the areas of language and orofacial motricity. She is part of the dissemination team for the journal Communication Disorders, Audiology and Swallowing (CoDAS), which is a technical-scientific publication of the Brazilian Society of Speech and Hearing Therapy. She is also a preceptor on the speech therapy course at USP and is part of mental health groups in primary health care. She received a fellowship from the Child and Adolescent Institute at USP's Hospital das Clínicas.