Oral language disorders in children from 4 to 6 years old in Belo Horizonte/Alteracoes da linguagem oral no nivel fonologico/fonetico em criancas de 4 a 6 anos residentes em Belo Horizonte

Purpose: to verify the prevalence of oral language disorders in children from four to six years old and its association with variables age, gender, orofacial motor skills impairments and auditory processing disorders. Methods: three evaluation protocols were used: stomatognathic system protocol adapted from the Myofunctional Evaluation Guidelines, the Phonology task of the ABFW-- Child Language Test and a simplified auditory processing evaluation. Data were statistically analyzed using the chisquare test to compare proportions and analysis of variance to compare means and 5% (p