ACHADOS AUDIOLÓGICOS E LINGUAGEM EM GÊMEAS REGURGITADORAS Audiology and language fi ndings in twins with gastroesophageal refl ux

ABSTRACTBackground: audiological fi ndings and language in regurgitating twin. Procedures: the study consists of the report concerning the Audiology fi ndings and the speech development in regurgitating twin sisters. The following steps were accomplished for this study: gathering data in medical registers, patient medical reports and gathering family history. In the data medical registers, beyond the Audiology speech fi ndings, we also found a boarding type of used therapeutic approach and the daily objective planning that guided the sessions. Results: children showed absence of otoacoustic emissions caused by transient stimulation, distortion product, and evoked hearing potential of the brain stem by air and by bone conduction with bilaterally electrophysiological threshold in 30 and 35dBNA, and a light degree hearing loss was suggested in the fi ndings. In this follow-up, they had episodes of secretary otitis media, confi rmed by the otolaryngology evaluation and tympanometric curves as for type B and C. Children initiated the speech therapy with ten-months age. Thirty-two therapeutical sessions were accomplished for subject A.B., 28 for subject A.E., in a period of eleven months, in which the children demonstrated improvements as for the language phase of the speech development, however they were not compatible with the age observed in studied literature.