PURPOSE Although mean length of utterance (MLU) is a useful benchmark in studies of children with specific language impairment (SLI), some empirical and interpretive issues are unresolved. The authors report on 2 studies examining, respectively, the concurrent validity and temporal stability of MLU equivalency between children with SLI and typically developing children. METHOD Study 1 used 12...

BACKGROUND oral language disorder and epilepsy in childhood. AIM to verify the occurrence of oral language disorders in epileptic preschoolers attended at the Child Neurology Section of a university hospital. METHOD a prospective study with 30 epileptic children who were submitted to an oral speech-language evaluation. INCLUSION CRITERIA explicit diagnosis of epilepsy according to the ILA...

Introduction: In early typical language development, children understand words before they are able to use them in speech. Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) generally show impairments in both the comprehension and the production of language. However, the relative degree of delay or impairment in each of these sub-domains may also be atypical and remains less well-understood. Materia...

Children with developmental language or speech disorders frequently benefit from augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies. These children have severe expressive or receptive communication disorders or both which sometimes occur in isolation, or as part of a global developmental disability. Children with specific language impairment, pervasive developmental disorder, developme...

objectives: profound hearing loss encounters children with delay in speech and language. as it is known language acquisition in young deaf children is a lengthy process, but cochlear implanted children have better spoken language skills than if they had not received the device. according to the importance of cochlear implant in deaf child's language development, this study evaluates the ef...

background:  speech is the most important aspect of development that related to central nervous system maturation in cognitive sensory motor domain. disorders of speech may disrupt other aspects of development. the study aimed to investigate the prevalence of speech disorders among primary schoolchildren in kermanshah during 2008-9. methods: six hundred schoolchildren from three educational reg...

Speech delay with an unknown cause is a problem among children. This diagnosis is the last differential diagnosis after observing normal findings in routine hearing tests. The present study was undertaken to determine whether auditory brainstem responses to click stimuli are different between normally developing children and children suffering from delayed speech with unknown causes. In this cr...

conclusions the results showed that despite the simultaneous high prevalence of sleep disturbances and sensory processing disorders in children with autism, there isn’t a significant relationship between the two conditions among these children. background autism is a neurological disorder that limits communication, socialization, and participation of children in symbolic play. sensory processin...