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The PhonicStick is a joystick which has been developed as a communicative device to be used by people with severe physical disabilities. During the developmental phase the possibility of using this device in order to train the phonological awareness of 6 – 8 year old children was examined. The studies conducted did not show any statistical difference in phonological awareness when this was tested with current tests after the children had trained with the PhonicStick. One explanation for this could be that the children had already begun to read and write in school. Therefore, a part of the present study was aimed at investigating if a difference in results on the norm referenced tests could be obtained if the children were 4-5 years old instead of 6-8. Parts of a norm referenced test for phonological awareness and an adapted test material for the PhonicStick were used for this evaluation. The 10 examined children were equally divided into a test and a control group.In addition, a meta study was performed, where all the studies relevant to phonological awareness and the PhonicStick were evaluated. Data from these studies were summarized, and processed statistically. Only two statistically significant (p<0.05) differences could be shown after the training with the PhonicStick: both the test group and the control group obtained better results in the posttest in the test of “phoneme identification” and the test group performed better at the test “word production” then the control group. A possible interpretation of the results could be that there might be an intuitive phonological awareness that can not be tested with the current tests for phonological awareness. / The PhonicStick är en joystick som utvecklas med avsikt att bli ett kommunikationshjälpmedel att användas för människor med grava fysiska funktionsnedsättningar. Under utvecklingsarbetet undersöktes om det även kunde användas för att träna fonologisk medvetenhet hos 6-8-åringar. Undersökningarna visade inte någon statistisk skillnad i fonologisk medvetenhet när detta undersöktes med gängse normerade tester efter träning med the PhonicStick. En förklaring kunde vara att dessa barn redan tränats i att läsa och skriva i skolan. Därför undersöktes i en delstudie i detta arbete om en skillnad i resultat på de normerade testen kunde hittas om barnen var 4-5-år istället för 6-8. Delar av ett normerat test för fonologisk medvetenhet och ett bearbetat testmaterial för the PhonicStick användes vid utvärderingen. De 10 undersökta barnen var jämt fördelade på testgrupp och kontrollgrupp. Dessutom utfördes en metastudie, i vilken alla inom området fonologisk medvetenhet relevanta studier med the PhonicStick utvärderades. Data från dessa studier sammanfattades och bearbetades statistiskt. Endast två skillnader kunde med statistiskt säkerhet (p<0,05) visas efter träning med the PhonicStick: både testgruppen och kontrollgruppen var bättre på posttestet i deltestet ”fonemidentifiering” och testgruppen presterade bättre på deltestet ”ordproduktion” än vad kontrollgruppen gjorde. En möjlig tolkning av resultaten kan vara att det kan finnas en intuitiv fonologisk medvetenhet som inte kan testas med gängse test för fonologisk medvetenhet.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-02-20T15:20:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 juliocesarcoelho.pdf: 3168547 bytes, checksum: 4c78ec65ec314f196209eea01e42bca8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-20T18:16:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 juliocesarcoelho.pdf: 3168547 bytes, checksum: 4c78ec65ec314f196209eea01e42bca8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-20T18:16:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 juliocesarcoelho.pdf: 3168547 bytes, checksum: 4c78ec65ec314f196209eea01e42bca8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-20T18:16:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 juliocesarcoelho.pdf: 3168547 bytes, checksum: 4c78ec65ec314f196209eea01e42bca8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-22 / O objeto de estudo da dissertação é o Governo Eletrônico (e-Gov) compreendido como um dispositivo capaz de condicionar processos comunicativos que permitem criar, coletar, organizar, transferir e compartilhar conhecimentos e informações que podem servir para a tomada de decisões, para a gestão de políticas públicas e para a inclusão do cidadão como produtor de conhecimento coletivo na Sociedade da Informação. A pesquisa avaliou as possibilidades comunicativas dos portais governamentais dos EUA, de Portugal e do Governo do Paraná. Dos portais governamentais avaliados, o do governo norte-americano é o que melhor usa o blog como espaço para a participação e colaboração, enquanto o portal de Portugal é o mais avançado no que se refere à prestação e à sofisticação de serviços oferecidos aos cidadãos e às empresas. O portal do governo do Paraná oferece experiências bem sucedidas como a criação do portal Gestão do Dinheiro Público (transparência), a construção de ferramentas e aplicativos para atender educadores, alunos, escola e comunidade no “Portal Dia a Dia Educação” e a utilização de Software Livre na informática pública. O que nos três casos predomina é a comunicação centrada no emissor (só do governo para a sociedade). Como proposta final, apresenta-se um modelo de portal para a Prefeitura de Juiz de Fora que permita uma melhor interação entre governo e cidadãos. / The object of this study is the e-Government (e-Gov), which is understood as a device able to give conditions to a communicative process that allows to create, to collect, to organize, to transfer and to share knowledge and information. These actions may be useful in the decision process, in managing public policy and citizen inclusion as a producer of collective knowledge in an Information Society. The research evaluated the communicative possibilities from governmental official sites from USA, Portugal and Parana State of Brazil. According to the official sites evaluated, the USA government is which give opportunity to participation and collaboration of the citizens, whereas Portugal official site is the most advanced concerned to ofter good and shphisticated services to citizens and companies. The official site of Parana government shows (presents) well succeded experiences such as the Use of Public Money site (transparency), the use of tools and applications to attend educators, students, school and community at the site Education Day By Day, and the use of Free Software in public informaties services in the three examples the main characteristic is that the communication is centered in the transmitter (only from the government to the society). As the final proposal we present a model of official site to Juiz de For a City Hall that allows a better interaction between government and citizies.