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Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner1, Luciana Amaro, Suzana Sumie Teramoto
1Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. hfwertzn@usp.br
Background:
Phonological disorder.
Aim:
To analyze the severity descriptors used by graduation students of the Speech-Language Communication Sciences and Speech-Language Pathologists to classify the phonological disorder.
Method:
60 judges classified the speech of 50 phonological disordered children regarding the severity of the disorder, after listening to their speech samples.
Results:
The most used and applied severity descriptors, to justify the severity of the disorder, were: phonology, age, intelligibility, voice and speech.
Conclusion:
The judges used similar criteria in the perceptual judgment of the severity.
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