Andrade Claudia Regina Furquim de, Martins Vanessa de Oliveira
Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Pro Fono. 2010 Jan-Mar;22(1):13-8. doi: 10.1590/s0104-56872010000100004.
a number of changes in the speech of normally aging adults have been described in the literature. However age-related changes in fluency have received little attention.
to verify the Fluency Profile of elderly regarding all of the different fluency parameters.
participants were 128 elderly, of both genders, aged above 60 years. Speech samples of all participants were gathered. They were analyzed according to: type of speech disruption; speech rate and frequency of speech disruptions, based on the analyses of 200 fluent syllables. Participants were compared between themselves regarding the decades of life. Individuals with ages above 80 years constituted a single group.
statistical analysis indicated significant differences between the decades only for syllables per minute. For the group of individuals with ages above 80 years, statistical significance was observed indicating an increase in the number of speech disruptions and a decrease in speech rate.
regarding the fluency parameters analyzed in this study, the effect of aging seems to be more expressive after the age of 80 years.
文献中描述了正常衰老成年人言语方面的一些变化。然而，与年龄相关的流畅性变化很少受到关注。
验证老年人在所有不同流畅性参数方面的流畅性特征。
参与者为128名60岁以上的老年人，男女皆有。收集了所有参与者的言语样本。根据言语中断类型、言语速率和言语中断频率对其进行分析，基于对200个流畅音节的分析。就生活年代对参与者进行相互比较。80岁以上的个体构成一个单独的组。
统计分析表明，仅每分钟音节数在不同年代之间存在显著差异。对于80岁以上的个体组，观察到统计学显著性，表明言语中断次数增加且言语速率降低。
就本研究分析的流畅性参数而言，衰老的影响在80岁之后似乎更为明显。
