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Item Caracterización de la prosodia en el adulto mayor con y sin alteraciones neurológicas en el Geriátrico Hermanita de los pobres en la ciudad Santiago de Cali en el periodo 2018 – 2019(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2019) Ocampo Motta, Leydi Tatiana; Moreno Sanclemente, Dolly; Lizarralde Gómez, Gloria Stella (Directora)This article provides information on the prosodic characteristics of speech in the elderly with and without neurological alteration, from the geriatric center Little Sisters of the Poor in the city of Cali, in the period 2018-2019, evaluated by the Prosody Assessment Test in Speech (TEPHA), providing the prosodic performance of 66 older adults, in the areas of understanding, repetition and production of linguistic and emotional prosody, rhythm, speed of speech and expressiveness, separating older adults with motor-type neurological injuries ( ACV, cerebral aneurysm, brain dysfunction), those who presented neurological alterations of cognitive behavioral type (mental disorder, Alzheimer), those who presented both neurological disorders (brain dysfunction, mental disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's) and the elderly without diagnosis. It is important to comment that the findings with greater difficulty in all the older adults were in the aspect of linguistic and emotional intonation in a 42%; as well as in the speed of spontaneous speech and reading in 45%. In the final results of the group of older adults with motor-type neurological lesions it was found that 50% had severe dysprosodia. Regarding older adults with cognitivebehavioral neurological alterations, it was found that 50% had low normal prosody. In older adults with mixed neurological disorders, 50% had low normal prosody and 50% had severe dysprosodia. In the elderly without diagnosis, it was evidenced that 32% had normal low prosody, 29% normal development of prosody, 20% alterations in prosody and moderate dysprosody, and 8% had severe dysprosodia.