Purpose
to define the profile of patients diagnosed with Dyslexia in terms of gender, familial recurrence for communication disorders or difficulties at school, presence of oral language disorders and the presence of changes in the skills of phonological working memory, visual memory and phonological awareness in the first clinical assessment, through analysis of charts of individuals.
Methods
we conducted a retrospective study cross-sectional study through analysis of charts of the last ten years, from 2001 to 2011, in which we investigated the clinical histories and interdisciplinary review of patients diagnosed with Dyslexia.
Result
through a sample of 23 medical records, it was found that 82% of patients belong to male subjects; 60.9% had familial recurrence for the presence of relatives with communication disorders or learning difficulties; 47.8% of children diagnosed with dyslexia reported suffering from some type of change in oral language; 82.6% of surveyed possessed alteration of phonological working memory, phonological awareness 82.6% and 39.1% of visual memory.
Conclusion
it was possible to verify that the profile of patients diagnosed with dyslexia, Clinical School at the home institution, is characterized, preferentially by male gender, the presence of familial recurrence for communication disorders or learning difficulties, and present a modification of phonological working memory and phonological awareness during the first clinical assessment.
Dyslexia; Language; Learning
