Publications by authors named "Algp Navas"
Unlabelled: Belting singers receiving care at the speech therapy service mentioned they find it easier to sing in American English than in Brazilian Portuguese.
Objective: to assess and compare the production of vowels and consonants of excerpts from musicals in Portuguese and English.
Methods: a phonological and phonetic analysis of the same excerpt from musicals was performed in both languages.
Objective: To review what the literature says about reading abilities of children on the autism spectrum (autism spectrum disorders, ASD) as well as to assess the results of intervention proposals. The broad ASD diagnosis used in the last decades and the resulting changes in the prevalence of these disorders have led to a relevant increase in the number of children diagnosed with ASD in the school system. The purpose of this review is to identify the different profiles of reading abilities shown by children with ASD described in the recent literature and the results of reported intervention methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To verify the language and cognitive profile of children with dyslexia, contributing to the diagnosis of this condition in readers of a regular orthography, such as Brazilian Portuguese.
Methods: In this study, 47 children with dyslexia (GD) and two controlled groups, one composed of 41 age controls (GCI) and the other with 31 reading controls (GCL), participated. All children were submitted to a battery involving the above-mentioned abilities.
Purpose: To verify the universal nature of the phonological processing deficit hypothesis for dyslexia, since the most influential studies on the topic were conducted in children or adults speakers of English.
Research Strategy: A systematic review was designed, conducted and analyzed using PubMed, Science Direct, and SciELO databases.
Selection Criteria: The literature search was conducted using the terms "phonological processing" AND "dyslexia" in publications of the last ten years (2004-2014).
Purpose: This study aimed to develop a reading profile of children from the third to seventh grade levels of elementary school.
Methods: Fifty five children, between seven and 14 years of age, participated in the study. Four texts were previously developed by the researcher for reading evaluation - one composed of short words, another with long words, a third syntactically simple, and a syntactically complex text, which were read orally by the participants.
Purpose: To characterize the reading ability of children with five years of education according to temporal standards, as well as to compare the reading fluency performance of these children before and after a reading program based on prosody standards.
Methods: Thirty two fourth-grade children participated in this study. They performed reading aloud and picture description tasks in order to verify reading rate, speech rate, text comprehension and the adequacy of prosody variation.