Adaptação transcultural do Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (PLAI-2) em falantes do português brasileiro com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Lindau, Tâmara de Andrade [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Fonoaudiologia; Crianças - Linguagem - Testes; Crianças - Linguagem pre-escolar; School children
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110544

The Preschool Language Assessment Instrument (PLAI-2) is an American tool developed to assist the assessment of spoken language of children in preschool, comprising 70 stimuli equally subdivided into receptive and expressive language items in their different abilities: choice, selective analysis, perceptual analysis and reasoning. This instrument provides two types of assessments: the formal assessment, which provides an overall and partial estimate of the development based on a gross score; and the informal assessment, which provides information regarding the adequacy of responses and interfering behaviors during assessment. In Brazil, the availability of objective instruments to assess spoken language is scarce, particularly for preschool population. Therefore, the overall purpose of this work was to translate and adapt to Brazilian Portuguese the PLAI-2 instrument in the first stage of this study. We highlight that all tested items were maintained, but changes were required in the order of an item, since the literal translation would create a rather formal vocabulary for the children’s language context used in Brazil, and a change of picture was suggested in another item. Thus, the translation and adaptation carried out complied with the theoretical, semantic and cultural equivalences. The second stage consisted of applying the PLAI-2 test adapted to Brazilian Portuguese, to the 354 participants with typical language development, of both genders, with chronological ages between three and five years and 11 months, divided into three groups according to the age group and each group made up of 118 participants. Data were assessed through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 21.0. When the comparison was made by group pairs, we deducted that the procedure used was able to identify differences between the three age groups for most part of the variables of interest. The statistically significant difference found between the...