Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, SP, Brazil.
J Appl Oral Sci. 2011 Nov-Dec;19(6):586-98. doi: 10.1590/s1678-77572011000600008.
Work with deaf children has gained new attention since the expectation and goal of therapy has expanded to language development and subsequent language learning. Many clinical tests were developed for evaluation of speech sound perception in young children in response to the need for accurate assessment of hearing skills that developed from the use of individual hearing aids or cochlear implants. These tests also allow the evaluation of the rehabilitation program. However, few of these tests are available in Portuguese. Evaluation with the Functional Auditory Performance Indicators (FAPI) generates a child's functional auditory skills profile, which lists auditory skills in an integrated and hierarchical order. It has seven hierarchical categories, including sound awareness, meaningful sound, auditory feedback, sound source localizing, auditory discrimination, short-term auditory memory, and linguistic auditory processing. FAPI evaluation allows the therapist to map the child's hearing profile performance, determine the target for increasing the hearing abilities, and develop an effective therapeutic plan.
Since the FAPI is an American test, the inventory was adapted for application in the Brazilian population.
The translation was done following the steps of translation and back translation, and reproducibility was evaluated. Four translated versions (two originals and two back-translated) were compared, and revisions were done to ensure language adaptation and grammatical and idiomatic equivalence.
The inventory was duly translated and adapted.
Further studies about the application of the translated FAPI are necessary to make the test practicable in Brazilian clinical use.
目的：由于 FAPI 是一项美国的测试，因此对该测试进行了翻译，以适用于巴西人群。
材料与方法：翻译是按照翻译和回译的步骤进行的，随后评估了其可重复性。对四个翻译版本（两个原文和两个回译）进行了比较，并进行了修订，以确保语言适应和语法及惯用表达等效。
结果：该测试已成功翻译和改编。
结论：需要进一步研究翻译后的 FAPI 的应用，以使该测试在巴西临床应用中具有可操作性。
