%0 Journal Article %T Vari¨¢veis extralingu¨ªsticas, sexo e idade, na consci¨ºncia do pr¨®prio desvio de fala %A Dias %A Roberta Freitas %A Melo %A Roberta Michelon %A Mezzomo %A Carolina Lisb£¿a %A Mota %A Helena Bolli %J Pr¨®-Fono Revista de Atualiza£¿£¿o Cient¨ªfica %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0104-56872010000400013 %X background: self-awareness of speech impairment according to the following extralinguistic variables: gender and age. aim: to examine the influence of gender and age on the self-awareness of speech impairment. method: participants were 24 children with the diagnosis of phonological disorder, 15 boys and 9 girls, with ages ranging between 5:0 and 7:7 years. for this group the assessment of self-awareness of speech impairment was perfomed. results: results indicated that 45.83% of the subjects presented self-awareness of speech impairment. there were no significant statistical differences between the studied extralinguistic variables and the self-awareness of speech impairment. however, a higher self-awareness of speech impairment was observed for six-year-old male children. conclusion: children with phonological disorder can be self-aware of speech impairment; gender and age are not important factors for the development of this ability. %K speech %K speech disorders %K speech perception %K age and sex distribution. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-56872010000400013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en