INTERAÇÃO ENTRE DOMÍNIO MOTOR AMPLO E DE LINGUAGEM NO PROCESSO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO TÍPICO: UMA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA

Abstract

Child development is built on fundamental pillars, also called domains, including motor and language, which gradually emerge from complex cascades of biological and physical interactions. The main of this integrative literature review was to synthesize studies that evaluated some interaction process between gross motor development and oral language components, especially the acquisition of the first speech sounds productions, in a typical developmental process in children from zero to 36 months of age.  Through a systematic literature search, six studies published between 2001 and 2015 were synthetically integrated into a critical review. The selected studies do not offer a consensus that can probably be explained by the methodological heterogeneity, especially marked by the limited sample number, diversity of objectives, instruments and methods of analysis, notably marked by the outcome variable being centered on general domain scores, or milestones. punctual. The last one mentioned seems to be more specific in flagging the interaction component that is reflected in the domain as a whole. In this complex interactional process, motor development seems to pave the way for the development of oral language, especially in the first speech productions, favoring a greater exploration of the environment and generating a greater communicative response, especially from parents and caregivers. We suggest further studies that compare developmental milestones in a parallel between the domains, with longitudinal delineation and multivariate analysis, in order to approach the antecedent-consequent relationship that would best explain this interaction process, which is not yet fully elucidated.