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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- What are the training and support needs for homelessness hostel staff supporting older residents with memory and cognitive problems? A qualitative studyby Luna Zalc on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: The present study highlights how hostel staff could benefit from targeted training in emotional support, person-centred approaches for older hostel residents with memory and cognitive problems, and collaboration with external services. Overall, the current study contributes to understanding of the need for tailored training and support methods within hostels to provide higher quality support to a population that is frequently overlooked.
- Promoting Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatment in Community Mental Health Clinics: Results of a Pilot Implementation Study: Promouvoir le traitement de sevrage tabagique fondé sur des données probantes dans les cliniques communautaires de santé mentale : résultats d'une étude pilote de mise en œuvreby Faith Dickerson on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians at CMHCs were engaged by and participated in training and implementation activities around smoking cessation practices which they then delivered to a substantial portion of clients in their care. The results of this study provide important data for the future planning of testing implementation strategies to scale up tobacco cessation treatment in this population in outpatient mental health settings.
- Feasibility, acceptability, and perceived benefits of a creative arts intervention for elementary school children living with speech, language and communication disordersby T Léger-Goodes on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: This innovative project suggests that art-based interventions can potentially benefit students' emotional expression, but further experimental studies are needed to substantiate these effects.
- Linguistic validation and cultural adaptation of Tamil version of oxford shoulder scoreby Senthilvelan Rajagopalan on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: This study indicated that the Tamil version of the OSS is a reliable and valid, self-reported questionnaire, which can be applied to patients with shoulder disorders. Furthermore, the very good psychometric properties of the OSS-T score would allow for its use in clinical practice in national and international research projects concerning Tamil-speaking patients.