PURPOSE: to investigate the existence of familial environmental aspects of anemic children that may be regarded as favorable for the recovery of anemia and the language development. METHODS: this is a case study of anemic children. The children (n = 11) were previously submitted to clinical treatment and language assessment. After 12 months, children were reassessed in clinical and language aspects, adding investigation of Home Environment Resources Scale. From this group, three cases were selected, reflecting different evolutions in clinical features' anemia and language development in order to explore the contributions of the familial environment in the improvement of those aspects. RESULTS: the comparison of the variables between the children who had gotten improvement or not in the clinical treatment showed to be differing statistically as for the values of hemoglobin and maternal breastfeeding's period (p<0.05). The analysis of the three cases shows that the environmental situation can aggravated the child's clinical features. CONCLUSION: the quality of the familial resources, the time of maternal breastfeeding and the parental practices in relation to the child might have contributed to the child's appropriate recovery in the focused aspects.
Anemia; Language Development; Child; Family
