Home language environment in relation to language outcome in Brazilian toddlers who are hard of hearing and controls with typical hearing – a pilot study including reliability analyses of the LENA recording system
Ambiente doméstico de linguagem em relação ao resultado de linguagem em crianças brasileiras com deficiência auditiva e controles com crianças com audição típica – um estudo piloto incluindo análises de confiabilidade do sistema de gravação LENA
Miriam da Silva Ferreira; Cilmara Cristina Alves da Costa Levy; Ulrika Löfkvist
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to explore the home language environment and language outcome of Brazilian toddlers who were hard of hearing, (HH) and controls with typical hearing (TH), and investigate the reliability of using the LENA recording system within a Brazilian Portuguese context. Methods: Fourteen families participated in the study (seven children who were HH and seven controls with TH. Each family contributed with one all-day recording. A smaller portion of the recordings of the typically hearing toddlers were manually transcribed by two transcribers. An interrater agreement was conducted, and then the human transcript results were compared against the LENA-generated data for three measures: Adult Words (AW), Child Vocalizations (CV) and Conversational Turns (CT). Results: Data analyses revealed a moderate to strong interrater agreement for CV and AW. Weak to moderate agreement was found between the LENA estimates and the means of the human counts for CV and AW. Seemingly, LENA overestimated human counts for AW and underestimated numbers of CV. Comparative analysis suggested similarities in the language and listening environment of the two groups (TH vs. HoH). Children’s language development was supported by higher numbers of parent-child interactions (CT). Conclusion: The findings imply that LENA may contribute as an ecologically valid tool in preventive family-centered intervention programs for Brazilian toddlers who are hard of hearing and their families, although further validation studies are needed.
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Objetivo: O objetivo deste estudo piloto foi explorar o ambiente da língua doméstica e os resultados linguísticos de crianças brasileiras com deficiência auditiva comparando com crianças ouvintes e investigar a confiabilidade do uso do sistema de registro LENA no contexto do português brasileiro. Método: Quatorze famílias participaram do estudo (sete com deficiência auditiva e sete controles com audição típica). Cada família contribuiu com uma gravação durante o tempo de vigilia. Uma parte menor das gravações das crianças com audição normal foi transcrita manualmente por dois transcritores. Um acordo entre avaliadores foi realizado e, em seguida, os resultados da transcrição humana foram comparados com os dados gerados pelo LENA para três medidas: Palavras de Adultos (PA), Vocalizações Infantis (VI) e Turnos de Conversação (TC). Resultados: As análises de dados revelaram uma concordância entre avaliadores moderada a forte para VI e PA. Foi encontrada concordância de fraca a moderada entre as estimativas de LENA e as médias das contagens humanas para VI e AW. Aparentemente LENA superestimou contagens humanas para PA e subestimou números de VI. A análise comparativa sugeriu semelhanças na linguagem e no ambiente auditivo dos dois grupos. O desenvolvimento da linguagem das crianças foi apoiado por um maior número de interações pais-filhos (TC). Conclusão: Os achados sugerem que o LENA pode contribuir como uma ferramenta ecologicamente válida em programas de intervenção preventiva centrada na família para crianças brasileiras com deficiência auditiva e suas famílias, embora mais estudos de validação sejam necessários.
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