title: Expressive vocabulary and auditory processing in children with deviant speech acquisition.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  expressive vocabulary and auditory processing in children with phonological disorder.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to compare the performance of children with phonological disorder in a vocabulary test with the parameters indicated by the same test and to verify a possible relationship between this performance and auditory processing deficits.
  
  
  METHODS
  participants were 12 children diagnosed with phonological disorders, with ages ranging from 5 to 7 years, of both genders. Vocabulary was assessed using the ABFW language test and the simplified auditory processing evaluation (sorting), Alternate Dichotic Dissyllable - Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW), Pitch Pattern Sequence (PPS) and the Binaural Fusion Test (BF).
  
  
  RESULTS
  considering performance in the vocabulary test, all children obtained results with no significant statistical. As for the auditory processing assessment, all children presented better results than expected; the only exception was on the sorting process testing, where the mean accuracy score was of 8.25. Regarding the performance in the other auditory processing tests, the mean accuracy averages were 6.50 in the SSW, 10.74 in the PPS and 7.10 in the BF. When correlating the performance obtained in both assessments, considering p>0.05, the results indicated that, despite the normality, the lower the value obtained in the auditory processing assessment, the lower the accuracy presented in the vocabulary test. A trend was observed for the semantic fields of "means of transportation and professions". Considering the classification categories of the vocabulary test, the SP (substitution processes) were the categories that presented the higher significant increase in all semantic fields.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  there is a correlation between the auditory processing and the lexicon, where vocabulary can be influenced in children with deviant speech acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-Rio Grande do Sul (UFSM-RS), Brazil. victorquintas@ymail.com
authors.forename: Victor Gandra
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Quintas
authors.forename: Carolina Lisbôa
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Mezzomo
authors.forename: Márcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keske-Soares
authors.forename: Roberta Freitas
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Dias
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014825:Vocabulary