Banca de DEFESA: ANNE KAROLINE WILLMER DE MORAIS

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STUDENT : ANNE KAROLINE WILLMER DE MORAIS
DATE: 24/09/2025
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Google Meet
TITLE:

Pragmatic profile of children with language complaints born into a social distancing context

KEY WORDS:

Language and Hearing Sciences; Child Language; Language Development; COVID-19; Physical Distancing.

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Fonoaudiologia
SUMMARY:

Pragmatics relates to the functional use of language in social contexts. The social distancing imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly impacted the interaction and socialisation of a significant portion of the population. This impact may affect the development of communication skills in children born during this period, as their opportunities for social interaction and communication partners have been reduced. Considering this context, the aim of this dissertation was to investigate the pragmatic profile of children born during the context of social distancing and who present complaints related to language development. The study is cross-sectional and was conducted at the Speech Therapy Teaching Clinic of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. A sample of 28 children, of both sexes, aged between 29 and 40 months, underwent a battery of assessments. This battery involved a questionnaire to characterise socioeconomic status and family environment, the language subscale of the Bayley III Scales, the Pragmatics section of the ABFW infant language test, and the Parent Observation of Social Interaction (POSI) section of the Survey of Wellbeing of Young Children (SWYC) protocol. The dissertation is structured into two complementary articles, resulting from analyses derived from this data collection. The first article investigated the concordance between the presence of risk for delayed language development (assessed by Bayley III) and indicators of social interaction difficulties (assessed by POSI-SWYC). The second article characterised the functional communication profile (ABFW Pragmatics) and related this profile to receptive and expressive communicative performance assessed by Bayley III.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2321749 - ANA MANHANI CACERES
Externa à Instituição - JULIANA IZIDRO BALESTRO
Externa à Instituição - NOEMI TAKIUCHI