Percepção dos estudantes de fonoaudiologia da Puc Goiás sobre o manhês

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the knowledge of students of the Speech Therapy course at PUC-Goiás regarding the term Manhês through the reports collected from a questionnaire and define the perception of Speech Language Pathology students between the relationship Manhês and language acquisition. Methods: This is a cross-sectional qualitative study that aims to analyze the perception of Speech-Language Pathology students about the Motherese theme. The criteria defined for inclusion were Students enrolled in the Speech Therapy course at PUC – Goiás; Attending students of the Speech Therapy course at PUC – Goiás; Students over 18 years old. Discussion and Results: 17 interviews were collected with students of speech therapy at PUC-GOIÁS, academics from the first to the eighth period, the acad. brought several definitions for motherese, of which high-pitched/high-pitched/infantile and infantile speech were the ones that appeared the most. Conclusion: The vast majority of students in the speech therapy course at PUC Goiás have the definition of motherese, but do not relate the characteristics to the technical term.