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Debora Maria Befi-Lopes
Researcher at University of São Paulo
Publications - 125
Citations - 1400
Debora Maria Befi-Lopes is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Specific language impairment & Language development. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 122 publications receiving 1267 citations.
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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of instruments to the Brazilian Portuguese language
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.
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Executive functioning and reading achievement in school: a study of Brazilian children assessed by their teachers as “poor readers”
Pascale Engel de Abreu,Neander Abreu,C Nikaedo,Marina Leite Puglisi,Carlos J. Tourinho,Mônica C. Miranda,Debora Maria Befi-Lopes,Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno,Romain Martin +8 more
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.
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Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural effects on verbal working memory and vocabulary: testing language-minority children with an immigrant background.
TL;DR: The study indicates that linguistic and cognitive assessments for language-minority children require careful choice among measures to ensure valid results.
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Investigation of auditory processing disorder and language impairment using the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response
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.
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Children with cochlear implants: communication skills and quality of Life
Talita Fortunato-Tavares,Debora Maria Befi-Lopes,Ricardo Ferreira Bento,Claudia Regina Furquim de Andrade +3 more
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.