Publications by authors named "Patricia Pupin Mandra"

Purpose: To systematically review the existing literature that examines the relationship between cognition, hearing, and language in children using cochlear implants and hearing aids.

Method: The review has been registered in Prospero (Registration: CRD 42020203974). The review was based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis and examined the scientific literature in VHL, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus, WOS, and Embase.

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Purpose: To compare the treatment time for acquired neurological disorders of communication and the reason for discharge of users of a medium complexity care service for two periods: before and after implementation of treatment indicators.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was carried out involving the analysis of medical records of users of the Adult Language Sector of the Speech and Hearing Therapy Service of the Integrated Rehabilitation Center, seen before and after treatment indicators implementation.

Results: 129 electronic medical records of users who remained under treatment until discharge from speech therapy in the two studied periods were analyzed.

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Purpose: to verify the applications of AAT in health by performing a systematic review of the literature.

Research Strategy: a survey was carried out in four databases with the descriptors: animal assisted therapy, horse assisted therapy, speech therapy.

Selection Criteria: article published between 2010 and 2018, in Portuguese or English, free electronic access and that mentioned the characteristics of the intervention program.

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Unlabelled: The most common acquired communication disorders are aphasia, dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Determining the factors associated with speech therapy time of adults with these disorders can further the understanding of the speech and language rehabilitation process within the public service and linked to the health education process.

Objective: To analyze the types of acquired neurological disorders of communication of patients treated during the first years of implementation of a medium complexity service, along with demographic data, and rehabilitation time; and to determine associations between rehabilitation time and age, education, type of communication disorder, neurological disease duration and having been seen by a trainee.

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Purpose: To investigate the correlation between age, socioeconomic status (SES), and performance on emissive and receptive vocabulary tests in children with typical language development.

Methods: The study sample was composed of 60 preschool children of both genders, aged 3 years to 5 years 11 months, with typical language development divided into three groups: G I (mean age=3 years 6 months), G II (mean age=4 years 4 months) and G III (mean age=5 years 9 months). The ABFW Child Language Test - Vocabulary and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) for emissive and receptive language were applied to the preschoolers.

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Unlabelled: Patients with dementia require rehabilitation involving several health professionals, where interdisciplinary care can further enhance the routine of patients and their families.

Objective: To compare the functional performance of elderly with dementia before and after an interdisciplinary intervention program provided by a healthcare service of medium complexity.

Methods: Three cases with clinically-confirmed dementia enrolled on an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program were reported.

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Background: Development of oral narrative.

Aim: To verify narrative and pause duration, number of words and interlocutor's interventions in the oral narratives of children with typical development.

Method: This study involved 31 subjects divided into four groups according to age: GI (3:1 to 4:0 years), GII (4:1 to 5:0 years), GIII (5:1 to 6:0 years) and GIV (6:1 to 7:0 years).

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