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
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- Autism, intelligence, language, and adaptive behavior, disentangling a complex relationshipby Chiara Failla on November 21, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a range of intellectual and language abilities. Its heterogeneity is acknowledged in modern diagnostics, complicating research and necessitating precision medicine and a multidimensional approach for individualized treatment and accurate assessment. Intellectual and language functioning influence adaptive skills and symptomatology. Thus, assessing adaptive functioning in a multidimensional and...
- Social and language regression: characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder in a community-based sampleby Nuri Reyes on November 21, 2024
This study investigated the prevalence, and the developmental, behavior and emotional outcomes of 675 preschoolers with ASD with or without a history of regression, who participated in the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED). The SEED project is a cross-sectional case-control study that collected data between 2007 and 2011. Children's history of regression, adaptive skills, and behavior problems were assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R), the Vineland Adaptive...
- Disparities in Receipt of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US Veterans Health Administrationby Minhee L Sung on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The proportions of patients with OUD prescribed MOUD increased from before to during the pandemic. However, Veterans who were women, Black, Latinx, and food insecure did not experience these increases. These patients may benefit from interventions such as targeted outreach efforts to improve MOUD engagement to reduce OUD harms.
- Comparison of NAFLD, MAFLD, and MASLD Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics in Asia Adultsby Xinjuan Huang on November 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: MASLD (36.91%) prevalence was closed to NAFLD (36.26%) and lower than MAFLD (53.03%). Presumed bone mass might be the predictor of disease progression in MASLD patients. MASLD better identifies patients likely to have a higher risk of metabolic disorders or CV events.