Language Disorders and ADD

Geriatrie Speech and Language Disorders

As the elderly census rising in the world, most of the developed and developing countries are engaged with implementation of many different geriatric programs in their governing agendas. As such increament includes Iran as well, Therefore providing many social, educational and economical programs which all must focus upon the elderlies well living style are considered crucial. Preserving the sp...

[Language and learning disorders].

OBJECTIVE To aid health professionals, especially pediatricians, in the diagnosis and prevention of language and learning disorders. SOURCES OF DATA Review of the relevant literature published in the past 5 years (MEDLINE and textbooks). SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Multiple variables, among them neurological diseases, may be related to the etiology of language and learning disorders. CONCLUSI...

Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution

Connectionist networks and language disorders.

Although neuropsychological localization constitutes the principal approach to the study of language disorders, there is reason to think it may not be entirely correct. Recent anatomical studies suggest that cognitive brain functions do not localize to precise anatomical locations. Connectionist (parallel distributed processing) approaches to the study of language, which emphasize the distribut...

Progressive Language Disorders

This paper describes a novel approach to the simulation of language disorders, based upon the notion of a multi-network architecture—a set of autonomous neural networks which have been linked in some manner to perform a complex function that cannot readily be performed by any one network alone. The merits of this approach have been assessed by mapping a neuropsychological model of single-word l...