title: [Standardisation of a battery of tests to evaluate language comprehension, verbal fluency and naming skills in Brazilian children between 7 and 10 years of age: preliminary findings].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The neuropsychological assessment of language requires instruments that evaluate its receptive and expressive aspects. Due to cultural discrepancies, the use of neuropsychological tests demands normalization studies to the population in which they will be used.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide normative data for Brazilian schoolchildren in relation to the Token Test, Semantic Verbal Fluency Test and the Minas Gerais Naming Test (animals, body parts and food categories).
  
  
  METHODS
  101 children (51 males, 50 females) with ages between 7 to 10 years (mean: 8 years and 8 months), with 2 to 4 years of formal education. Exclusion criteria included score below 25 percentile in the Raven Test. RESULTS. There were no differences between male and female performance. Age was significantly related to performance in all tests.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results are compatible to the literature and, thought preliminary, they may be used as reference in research and clinical settings in our country.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad FUMEC, Nova Lima, Brasil. leandro.fernandes@terra.com.br
authors.forename: L Fernandes
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Malloy-Diniz
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bentes
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Figuereido
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brandao-Bretas
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: da Costa-Abrantes
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Parizzi
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Borges-Leite
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Salgado
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*