ETDs @PUC-Rio
| Título: | LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES OF CHILDREN WITH LEARNING PROBLEMS: SOME RELATIONS WITH SLI AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORY OF MIND | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Autor: |
WANDERSON FERREIRA BOMFIM |
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| Colaborador(es): |
LETICIA MARIA SICURO CORREA - Orientador |
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| Catalogação: | 17/MAR/2009 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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| Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notas: |
[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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| Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13166&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13166&idi=2 |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.13166 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The primary aim of this dissertation is to evaluate the
linguistic
performance of 30 children with learning impairment in
order to verify the extent
to which these difficulties are equivalent to those that
characterize the
performance of SLI (Specific Language Impairment) children.
The performance
of children with learning impairment was also evaluated by
means of a classic
false belief task intended to assess their development as
far as Theory of Mind is
concerned, since this development has been pointed to be
compromised in face of
linguistic impairment. Moreover, this research aimed to
enlarge the sample of
children without language impairment whose linguistic
performance is assessed
by means of a set of tests (Modules for the Evaluation on
Linguistic Abilities),
that has been developed in LAPAL (Laboratório de
Psicolinguística e Aquisição
de Linguagem - PUC-RIO), intended to identify those aspects
of language that
are particularly affected in SLI Brazilian Portuguese
speaking children. The
performance of 30 children with and without learning
impairment, of low
economical background and age average by 6 years old was
evaluated at a public
school in the outskirts of Brasilia, Federal District,
Brazil. The results show that
the performance of children with learning impairment was,
generally, lower in
comparison with children without learning impairment. The
performance in
comprehension tasks focusing on simple active and passive
sentences,
reversible/irreversible, coordinated, relative clauses, WH
interrogatives, and in
tasks focusing on the processing of gender and number
agreement was
significantly different between children with and without
learning impairment.
The results indicate linguistics difficulties shared with
Specific Language
Impairment in the learning impaired group, even though the
effect of group,
independently of the linguistic variable manipulated,
suggests that difficulties of a
different order might affect their linguistic performance.
The result of the test of
false belief task shows that the group with learning
impairment, more than the
control group, has difficulty in foreseeing the action of a
character from a false
belief attribution. Difficulties in using clues in the
solution of the linguistic tasks
and in the elaboration of dependent inferences of ToM can
therefore impair the
school performance of this group.
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