Communication with patients with dementia may be a difficult task for caregivers. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to produce a Brazilian transcultural adaptation of an instrument developed in Canada, called the Small Communication Strategies Scale, composed of 10 items constructed from 10 communicative strategies most recurrent in a literature survey. METHODS Drawing on understanding of...

OBJECTIVE The Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test, which is used to evaluate learning and memory, is a widely recognized tool in the general literature on neuropsychology. This paper aims at presenting the performance of Brazilian adult subjects on the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test, and was written after we published a previous study on the performance of Brazilian elderly subjects on this sa...

Background: impact of dizziness on life quality (LQ). Aim: to adapt the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) for application in the Brazilian population; to assess its reproducibility; and to describe the results obtained in patients with chronic dizziness. Method: The DHI was initially applied in 45 patients with chronic dizziness and with a clinical diagnosis of vestibular syndrome. The applica...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to translate into Brazilian-Portuguese the Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire (OPAQ), and to evaluate its reliability and validity. METHODS The OPAQ was translated into Brazilian-Portuguese. This version was then back-translated into an English version which was compared to the original version, and a second Brazilian-Portuguese version was generated...

OBJECTIVE To present the process of transcultural adaptation of the Richmond Compulsive Buying Scale to Brazilian Portuguese. METHODS For the semantic adaptation step, the scale was translated to Portuguese and then back-translated to English by two professional translators and one psychologist, without any communication between them. The scale was then applied to 20 participants from the gen...

International research has increasingly considered temperament as a relevant personal variable in child developmental pathways. The purpose of the present study was to describe the methodology for translation to Portuguese (Brazil) of three child temperament assessment instruments based on Rothbart’s theoretical approach. An original translation was modified, based on feedback by two profession...

This paper describes the machine translation (MT) site PorTAl developed aiming at integrating useful tools and resources for MT and the multilingual processing. Currently under development, the PorTAl will provide tools and resources for Brazilian Portuguese, English and Spanish (initially). In a near future we believe that the PorTAl will stimulate a progress in multilingual applications, part...

This article extends current methodologies for the linguistic analysis of sign language acquisition to cases of bimodal bilingual acquisition. Using ELAN, we are transcribing longitudinal spontaneous production data from hearing children of Deaf parents who are learning either American Sign Language (ASL) and American English (AE), or Brazilian Sign Language (Libras, also referred to as Língua ...

Solanum brasilianum Dunal was described by Dunal in 1813 with reference only to an illustration in an 18th century work by Leonard Plukenet. Th e plate is diffi cult to interpret and no explicitly related specimens were available so the name S. brasilianum has long been regarded as “unresolved” and has never been used. Material matching the Plukenet plate was discovered in the herbarium of the ...