Interpretation of ambiguities by schoolchildren with low birth weight from Embu das Artes, São Paulo state, Brazil.

Purpose: To assess the development of language regarding the ability to recognize and interpret lexical ambiguity in low-birth-weight schoolchildren enrolled at the school system in the municipality of Embu das Artes, Sao Paulo state, compared with that of schoolchildren with normal birth weight.

Methods: A case-control, retrospective, cross-sectional study conducted with 378 schoolchildren, both genders, aged 5 to 9.9 years, from the municipal schools of Embu das Artes.

School children with low birth weight inserted in system of Embu's education: construction of sentences.

Purpose: To characterize the construction of sentences in schoolchildren born with low weight.

Methods: We selected 413 students from Embu das Artes (SP), Brazil. Application of Recreating Speech Acts of Test of Language Competence sub-test.

Analysis of oral narratives of preschool children before and after language stimulation.

Purpose: To verify the oral narrative abilities in preschoolers, before and after language stimulation.

Methods: Participants were 58 preschoolers. The study was developed in three stages: 1.

Expressive language of two year-old pre-term and full-term children.

Background: expressive language of pre-term children.

Aim: to compare the expressive vocabulary of two year-old children born prematurely, to that of those born at term.

Methods: the study sample was composed by 118 speech-language assessment protocols, divided in two groups: the pre-term group (PTG) composed by 58 underweight premature children followed by a multi-professional team at the Casa do Prematuro (House of Premature Children) at Unifesp, and the full-term group (FTG) composed by 60 full-term born children.