Language Disorder
What’s language disorder? People with language disorder have difficulty expressing themselves and understanding what others are saying. This is unrelated to hearing problems. Language disorder, formerly known as receptive-expressive language disorder, is common in young children.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW113
Diagnosis: Language Disorder
US Patients: 7% of young children;acquired before age 3
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: B2;G
Age Onset:
Brain Area:
Symptoms: may involve grammar or semantics (meaning of words); can be in forming or expressing language or in understanding language
Progression: may have problems in the mental formation of language itself
Causes: expressive language disorders may include limited vocabulary, inability to produce complex grammar or others; audiology may help
Medications:
Therapies: speech therapy my help those with forming and expressing language; help in reading comprehension may be more difficult
Youtube Video:
How to Help a Child with Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder
Amazon or Library Book: Childhood Speech and Language Disorders
Click the book to link or buy from Amazon.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Validity of the ESSENCE-Q neurodevelopmental screening tool in Japanby Kahoko Yasumitsu-Lovell on May 18, 2024
AIM: To assess the validity of the Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations-Questionnaire (ESSENCE-Q), a simple screening tool for neurodevelopmental problems, in Japan.
- The longitudinal impact of an evidence-based multiple family group intervention (Amaka Amasanyufu) on family cohesion among children in Uganda: Analysis of the cluster randomized SMART Africa-Uganda scale-up study (2016-2022)by William Byansi on May 18, 2024
Family functioning plays a critical role in childhood disruptive behavior disorders (The Family Journal, 2003, 11(1), 33-41; Research in Nursing and Health, 2016, 39(4), 229-243). Yet, there is limited research on the impact of evidence-based family strengthening interventions on improving family cohesion as a protective factor among children experiencing behavioral challenges. To address this gap, we analyzed data (N = 636) from the SMART Africa-Uganda study (2016-2022), a cluster randomized...
- Mental health in nursing homes: The role of immigration in the long-term care workforceby Hankyung Jun on May 18, 2024
One-fourth of nursing home residents are diagnosed with anxiety disorders and approximately half live with depression. Nursing homes have long struggled with staffing shortages, and the lack of care has further heightened the risk of poor mental health. A key solution to both problems could be immigration. Prior studies have documented how immigrant labor could strengthen the long-term care workforce. We add to this picture by exploring the impact of immigrant inflows on the mental health...
- Patient navigation for perinatal substance use disorder treatment: A systematic reviewby Kathryn Wouk on May 18, 2024
CONCLUSION: Patient navigation may be a promising strategy for improving maternal and infant health outcomes among perinatal persons who use substances. More experimental research is needed to test the effect of patient navigation programs for perinatal persons who use substances compared to other models of care.