Debora Maria Befi-Lopes

TL;DR: It is fundamental to adopt appropriate methodological procedures when translating and adapting foreign assessment instruments during translation and cross-cultural adaptation to the Brazilian Portuguese language.

TL;DR: The study suggests that deficits in working memory/cognitive flexibility might represent one contributing factor to reading difficulties in early readers, which might have important implications for how educators might intervene with children at risk of academic under achievement.

TL;DR: The study indicates that linguistic and cognitive assessments for language-minority children require careful choice among measures to ensure valid results.

TL;DR: A comparative analysis of the responses between the typical development children and children with (C)APD and LI revealed abnormal encoding of the speech acoustic features that are characteristics of speech perception in children with the latter, although the two groups differed in their abnormalities.

TL;DR: For parents of Brazilian children with cochlear implants, lexical development is the variable that relates most to the quality of life of their children, and correlations for the variable communication demonstrate a direct relationship between oral communication and other variables ofquality of life.