PHONOLOGICAL ABILITIES IN CHILDREN WITH STUTTERING Habilidades fonológicas em crianças com gagueira

(1) Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (2) Universidade Federal de São Paulo Program – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (3) Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (4) Department of Speech Pathology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (5) Department of Speech Pathology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Sources of Funding: Fapesp – Processo no. 09/54638-0 Conflict of interest: non-existent three years or more years. Persistent and transient stuttering seem to be the result of a common genetic factor. The persistent stuttering probably has additional factors that may influence recovery. Natural recovery of stuttering appears to be linked to factors such as, good performance on tests of phonology, language, non-verbal skills, have no family history of stuttering or family members who have recovered, and being female3, 4. The language develops quickly and an increase in the complexity and extent of emissions of children who exceed their abilities to speech production. The selection of words, phonological coding, syntactic and prosodic planning for effective emission occur when the child is just starting production of speech. There is evidence that delays in language acquisition, especially in phonological development may be associated with risk of persistent stuttering. One study found that about 30% of stutterers have an increased rate of phonological changes compared with non-stutterers, with values ranging between 2% and 6%5. ABSTRACT