Acquired Aphasia in Children

Acquired Aphasia in Children

Acquired childhood aphasia is rare but has important conceptual implications for developmental neuropsychology. The last 15 years have seen major changes in their clinical description, which have led to the awareness that the syndromes in acquired childhood aphasia are more similar to the syndromes in adult aphasia than previously thought. This article briefly discusses the definition and diffe...

Syndrome of acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder in children. 1957.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome: acquired epileptic aphasia in children.

Acquired epileptic aphasia, or Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), once thought to be a rare syndrome, may occur more frequently in the pediatric population than once thought. This syndrome is typically characterized by an abrupt or gradual loss of language ability and inattentiveness to sound, sometimes called auditory agnosia, with onset during the first 5 years of life. This interruption in comm...

Aphasia in Children

aphasic " boys and girls. Seven of these were dumb and totally deaf to speech before receiving education by special methods. The three others suffered from gross defects of speech and language. In only one instance was there any history of injury or serious illness. Since the usual tests for hearing were ineffective it was necessary to devise special tests of hearing. The most important of thes...

Magnetoencephalography in children with Landau-Kleffner syndrome and acquired epileptic aphasia.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) is epileptiform aphasia acquired during childhood and occurring in children with previously normal language development. The epileptiform activity in these children is thought to result in a functional ablation of eloquent speech areas. The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of magnetoencephalography (MEG) for localizing...