Evaluación e intervención logopédica en los niños con trastornos del habla; que asisten a la Escuela Fiscal Honorato Vázquez, período 2012

Abstract

The current work has been done by using the descriptive-prospective method, with speech therapy intervention, whose objective was to evaluate and intervene through speech therapy the speech disorders (dyslalia, disfemia, diglossia, and dysarthria) through screening (revision of words previously mentioned) in children (boys and girls) of “Honorato Vásquez” public elementary school from kindergarten until the fourth level of basic education with the help of the application of articulation tests, the evaluation of disfemia, and oral peripheral mechanism.

The sample was collected taking into consideration 197 boys and girls. The 15.3% of the children evaluated presented speech disorders, divided into the 14.21% who presented dislalia, and the 1.02% presented disfemia. There was no presence of diglossia or dysarthria. According to gender, 16.82% of boys presented dislalia, contrary to the 12% of girls who presented this disorder. Concerning disfemia, the 1.76% represents boys; however, the 0% of the girls presented this problem. The most frequent ages in which dislalia was shown was between 4-5 years, representing a 56.62%. Disfemia was mostly found in 8-year-old kids (5%). After the speech therapy intervention and the post evaluation of boys and girls, the 8.12% overcame their speech disorder, while the 7.1% could overcame their dislalia. The disfemia cases at 0.51% overcome her disorder.

DeCS: Language tests-statistics & numerical dat; Speech Disorders- classification; Speech Disorders- epidemiology; Speech disorders- rehabilitation; Children; Child, Preschool; Students; Cuenca-Ecuador