Apraxia de fala na infância e transtorno do espectro autista : revisão integrativa

Abstract

Objective: To describe the findings about Childhood Apraxia of Speech and communicative difficulties of children with ASD. Research strategy: It is an integrative revision of the literature, made under the basis of the data from Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde (BVS), National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE VIA PUBMED), COCHRANE, SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE. Selection criteria: There was a selection of papers with no publishing date limit and, afterwards, there was the reading of titles and summaries. The inclusion criteria were: complete papers which addressed Childhood Autism and Apraxia of Speech, issued in Portuguese, English and Spanish, in national and international journals. As an exclusion criteria, the studies with children over 5 years 11 months and 29 days old, senior citizens and adolescents were not considered, which was also true for papers that did not address the Childhood Apraxia of Speech in children suffering from ASD. Data analysis: The reading of the papers was made by titles and summaries and the extraction of data to characterize the methodology and the research content. Results: There was the selection for full reading of 15 papers which had been separated according to two thematic axes related to Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Conclusion: The findings demonstrate the lack of consensus between the occurrence of Childhood Apraxia and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.