Language development and its relation to social behavior and family and school environments: a systematic review.

Purpose: To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the relationship between language development, social behavior, and family and school environments in children aged 4 to 6 years.

Research Strategy: Papers published between March 2009 and March 2014 were searched in electronic databases. The first phase of the study consisted in preparing the guiding question.

[Speech and language disorders in children from public schools in Belo Horizonte].

Objective:: To investigate the prevalence of oral language, orofacial motor skill and auditory processing disorders in children aged 4-10 years and verify their association with age and gender.

Methods:: Cross-sectional study with stratified, random sample consisting of 539 students. The evaluation consisted of three protocols: orofacial motor skill protocol, adapted from the Myofunctional Evaluation Guidelines; the Child Language Test ABFW - Phonology; and a simplified auditory processing evaluation.

["Children cannot wait": why mothers seek urgency and emergency care services for their children in non-urgent situations].

The scope of this article is to seek to understand the reasons why mothers seek urgency and emergency attention for children in non-urgent situations in a public hospital of the Unified Health System in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais. It is a study involving a qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews as the data collection tool. Twenty-seven mothers of children with complaints classified as minor and non-urgent were interviewed.

[Hearing screening in a public hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil: hearing impairment and risk factors in neonates and infants].

The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing impairment in children in a public hospital in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and to investigate the association with risk factors described in the literature. This study was cross-sectional and retrospective and analyzed 798 newborns and infants evaluated in the Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening Program from June 2002 to December 2003. The risk factors established by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing in 1994 and Azevedo in 1996 were studied, besides prematurity.

[Mothers' perspectives on infant death: an investigation beyond the statistics].

This qualitative study was conducted in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, focusing on infant death from the mothers' perspective. Sixteen mothers whose infants had died were interviewed. Mothers' narratives were analyzed by classifying such categories as perceptions of health-illness-death, the physician-patient relationship, and quality of care.