[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].
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.
Malloy-Diniz
L Fernandes
LF
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad FUMEC, Nova Lima, Brasil. leandro.fernandes@terra.com.br
Bentes
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Figuereido
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Brandao-Bretas
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da Costa-Abrantes
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Parizzi
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Borges-Leite
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Salgado
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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*