Capacidade de nomeação táctil de crianças com 4 e 5 anos de idade nascidas pré-termo

Abstract

The capacity of tactile naming is the ability to obtain sensory information from the environment, an object and/or body movements, process and integrate these sensory inputs to the central nervous system and use sensory information to recognize and name an object. Exploiting the ability to tactile naming recognition will allow to empirically verify whether access to the language and the route information carried by the linguistic level is done according to the expected. The present study aims to compare the ability of tactile naming of children with 4 and 5 years of age with birth at term and birth at preterm (between 28 and 36 weeks of gestation). Sixty children, 20 preterm and 40 term, attending kindergarten in the area of great Lisbon, born at term and preterm, have been evaluated through a tactile naming task with common objects, participated in this study. No significant differences between the group of premature and contrast were observed, however the group of premature children have obtained lower values, in the limit of significance. There was no correlation between performance on the tactile naming with the number of weeks of gestation or with birth weight. Also no correlation was verified through years of parental schooling in any groups. In contrast there was no group difference between boys and girls, but the performance in preterm girls was better. Due to the limitations of the study was not possible to value the differences in the results obtained through the right hand and left hand.

Date of Award	18 Jul 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Emília Santos (Supervisor) & Joana Castelo Branco (Co-Supervisor)