Clinical Evolution Report: Speech & Language Assessment
Clinical Evolution Report: Speech & Language Assessment
1) IDENTIFICATION:
Current age:
Intern:
Supervisor:
Changes in speech
Organic
To promote the development of speech and language and to adjust orofacial functions.
The patient has significant spatial, temporal, and balance psychomotor difficulties.
besides language aspects such as unintelligible speech, disorganization of discourse, delay in
receptive and expressive language and learning difficulties. Still does not know how to read or
writing and does not recognize most letters and numbers. It also has issues with
attention and concentration and deficits in working memory and long-term memory.
During the activities carried out to stimulate higher cognitive skills, it was
it is possible to notice an improvement in attention, concentration, and organization of speech
patient and currently he manages to complete the proposed tasks with difficulty. The speech
it is more intelligible, but it still needs adjustments.
The patient showed good interaction with the therapist from the first session.
showing interest in the proposed activities.
During the initial sessions, the patient had a lot of difficulty maintaining attention,
concentration and especially memory in the execution of the activities developed. It was necessary to
intervention of the therapist to be able to direct him to maintain focus, as he was getting distracted
easily and tried to bypass the established rules of the games. The therapist talked with the
patient on how to behave, not to shout and sit properly and also reinforced with her
mother about the importance of carrying out activities both in therapy and at home and during
in the following sessions the patient has already shown significant improvement, changing his/her
behavior.
Use of chronological sequence games from UTFONO, in which the patient should
put the scenes in order and then tell what the assembled story is. Accomplished with
ease.
Activity for spatial organization, which is the ability of the individual to locate-
and to orient oneself, in relation to objects, people, and one's own body in a certain
Space. It is knowing how to locate what is to the right or to the left; in front or behind; above or below.
of yes, or again, an object in relation to another. (ASSUNÇÃO; COELHO, 1996, p.91-96). And still
today/yesterday/tomorrow (the days of the week). Cardboard and everyday figures were used
for the creation of a framework in which the patient should choose the main activities of
week. It was an activity in which the patient had good participation organizing the
sequence of the figures represented as daily activities, the collage, and then made the summary
about how your day was using your own figures.
Games with rhymes where the child had to recognize the sounds of words,
identifying the rhymes; The game 'Who am I' was used in which the patient should guess the
figure through the characteristics mentioned by the therapist. In this strategy, the patient had
quite a difficulty in understanding the rules of the game and did not do well; in a second
At the moment, various figures were used where the patient had to separate them and stick them on.
different leaves according to their respective rhymes.
9) CONDUCT / REFERRAL
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