Program effectiveness of vocal well-being associated with theater games for teachers of childhood education

• Grant number: 11/12978-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2011
• End date: October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Aline Epiphanio Wolf
• Grantee: Bárbara Vieira Coró
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Objective: this study aims to verify the effectiveness of welfare programs associated with vocal theater games for educators teaching children. Methodology: This will include 350 teachers of both sexes, participants in the project "Theatre Goes to School" Theatre Company of Santa Sia Campinas. This project consists of two hours of voice workshops, a two-hour workshop and two hours of Theatre Storytelling Workshop, and a theatrical presentation for students at public schools of children of gestational age. During the two hours of speech-language intervention, teachers respond to a questionnaire on information pre and post-vocal Wellness Program Vocal. After six months after the end of the program in November 2011 again respond to the questionnaire in order to verify the effectiveness of the program in the long term. There will exclude individuals who undertake speech therapy. The research will be developed by the City Schools Superintendent Sumaré as the acquiescence of Pedagogical and Administrative affairs of the Directors of the Company Theatre Sia Santa. (AU)