objective neurodevelopmental disability is one of the most common problems of children referred to  pediatric neurology clinics. these children may suffer from speech delay, intellectual deficiency and behavioral disorder. some patients with neurodevelopomental delay, especially those with intellectual disability and speech problems, have abnormal electroencephalograms, without clinical seizure...

Purpose To systematically review the scientific production on the relationship between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Speech-language Pathology and to methodologically analyze the observational studies on the theme. Research strategies Systematic review of the literature conducted at the databases Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System online (MEDLINE, USA), Lit...

Background/Aim. Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show lower degree of recognition their own emotions and greater behavioral difficulties than children who do not have this disorder. This also affects the other people's that are expressed only by language content, but facial expression way they express emotional message through speech. Most research in area focuses o...

BACKGROUND Children and young people with Down's syndrome present with deficits in expressive speech and language, accompanied by strengths in vocabulary comprehension compared with non-verbal mental age. Intelligibility is particularly low, but whether speech is delayed or disordered is a controversial topic. Most studies suggest a delay, but no studies explore the relationship between cogniti...

Word-finding difficulty’ (WFD)is an expressive speech disorder that can result from a wide range of neurologic disturbances. It be the multiple brain disorders such as infraction [1], epilepsy [2] infectious disease [3] or even sclerosis [4].

Most often stuttering is identified with a speech disorder or speech disfluency. However, it resembles a disorder consisting of linguistic, biological, psychological and social factors, as well as relations between them. The onset of stuttering usually occurs in the preschool age or even earlier, though relatively little concern has been devoted to this period. The article presents a review of ...

Children with a speech or language delay take longer to begin speaking than other children their age. This is different from a speech and language disorder, which occurs when the child’s speech and language development is not typical. Stuttering, lisping, or having trouble pronouncing words are examples of speech disorders. Some speech and language problems can make it hard for a child to learn...

Acquired neurogenic communication disorders can affect language, speech, or both. Although neurogenic speech disorders have been researched for a considerable time, much of this work has been restricted to a few languages (mainly English, with German, French, Japanese and Chinese also represented). Further, the work has concentrated on monolingual speakers. In this account, I aim to outline the...

The goals of this two-part series on children with histories of early recurrent otitis media with effusion (OME) were to assess the risk for speech disorder with and without hearing loss and to develop a preliminary descriptive-explanatory model for the findings. Recently available speech analysis programs, lifespan reference data, and statistical techniques were implemented with three cohorts ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to report the psychiatric, neuroradiological and linguistic characteristics in a native speaker of Dutch who developed speech symptoms which strongly resemble Foreign Accent Syndrome. BACKGROUND Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare speech production disorder in which the speech of a patient is perceived as foreign by speakers of the same speech community. This ...