Evolution of language assessment in patients with acquired neurological disorders in Brazil

Parente, Maria Alice de Mattos Pimenta; Baradel, Roberta Roque; Fonseca, Rochele Paz; Pereira, Natalie; Carthery-Goulart, Maria Teresa

doi:10.1590/S1980-57642014DN83000002

Abstracts

The objective of this paper was to describe the evolution of language assessments in patients with acquired neurological diseases over a period of around 45 years from 1970, when interdisciplinarity in Neuropsychology first began in Brazil, to the present day. The first twenty years of data was based on memories of Speech Pathology University Professors who were in charge of teaching aphasia. We then show the contributions of Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology, as well as Psycholinguistic and Psychometric criteria, to language evaluation. Finally, the current panorama of adaptations and creations of validated and standardized instruments is given, based on a search of the databases Pubmed, Scopus and Lilacs. Our closing remarks highlight the diversity in evaluation approaches and the recent tendency of language evaluations linked to new technologies such as brain imaging and computational analysis.

acquired aphasia; disability evaluation; history

O objetivo deste artigo é descrever a evolução das avaliações de linguagem em pacientes com distúrbios neurológicos adquiridos durante um período de aproximadamente 45 anos, dos anos 1970 até os dias atuais, quando a interdisciplinaridade iniciou-se no Brasil na Neuropsicologia. Os relatos dos primeiros 20 anos foram baseados em memórias de professores de universidades que possuiam o curso de Fonoaudiologia e ministravam disciplinas de afasia. Após, procuramos mostrar as contribuições da Linguística, da Psicologia Cognitiva para a avaliação da linguagem, assim como dos critérios psicolinguísticos e psicométricos. Por fim, apresentamos o panorama atual das adaptações e criações de instrumentos validados e estandardizados a partir de busca nas bases Pubmed, Scopus e Lilacs. Nossos comentários finais salientam a diversidade dos métodos de avaliação e a tendência recente da avaliação da linguagem estar relacionada às novas tecnologias de imagem cerebral e a análises computacionais.

afasia adquirida; avaliação da deficiência; aspectos históricos

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Note. There is a difference between language andhumanspeech or the human faculty of language. In this paper, Language is defined as the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Mansur LL, Radanovic M, Taquemori L, Greco L, Araújo GC. A study of the abilities in oral language comprehension of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination -- Portuguese version: a reference guide for the Brazilian population. Braz J Med Biol Res 2005;38:277-292.

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