Expressive Language Disorder
Expressive language disorder is difficulty using words to communicate needs and ideas. Children who have this disorder may leave words out of sentences, mix up word tense, and repeat phrases or parts of sentences. It can lead to problems in social settings and at school.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W080
Diagnosis: Expressive Language Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: B+;G
Age Onset:
Brain Area: Inadequate procedural memories in basal-ganglia circuits in the frontal lobe; Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, also
Symptoms: lower than normal spoken language expression, but normal language understanding: vocabulary, complex sentences etc.
Progression:
Causes: “acquired expressive language disorder” – brain damage, by stroke, injury or seizures; FOXP2-gene=speech impairments
Medications: None listed. The Wikipedia article includes a section describing areas of the brain which may affect this disorder.
Therapies: speech therapy
Youtube Video: Receptive and Expressive Language
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Support Group: asha.org (American Speech and Hearing Association; They may refer therapists, but may or may not offer support groups.)
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- Diagnostic delay in cerebral creatine deficiency disorders: lessons learned from a cross-sectional single center study, and guanidinoacetate and creatine measurements in Switzerland between 2015 and 2023by Christina Kaufman on January 21, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: The data from this study demonstrate a relevant delay in identifying patients with these rare conditions, and a predominance of biomarker analysis requested from pediatric subspecialties that are involved in patient management often long after occurrence of symptoms. To reduce the diagnostic delay and the outcome of patients, the current practice of sample referral should be reflected and first-contact healthcare providers should be encouraged to initiate selective screening.
- Rethinking speech sound disorder (SSD) in non-syndromic cleft lip and palate: The importance of recognizing phonological and language difficultiesby Stephanie van Eeden on January 17, 2025
CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: An association between language skills and speech production was observed. The distribution of speech errors in children with CP ± L varied with a high level of DSC as well as CSC. Those with CSC + DSC had significantly lower language scores than those with typically developing speech or CSC only. Speech and language therapists working with this caseload should be alerted to potential ongoing phonological and language difficulties in children presenting with this...
- Speech, Language and Non-verbal Communication in CLN2 and CLN3 Batten Diseaseby Lottie D Morison on January 17, 2025
CLN2 and CLN3 diseases, the most common types of Batten disease (also known as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis), are childhood dementias associated with progressive loss of speech, language and feeding skills. Here we delineate speech, language, non-verbal communication and feeding phenotypes in 33 individuals (19 females) with a median age of 9.5 years (range 3-28 years); 16 had CLN2 and 17 CLN3 disease; 8/15 (53%) participants with CLN2 and 8/17 (47%) participants with CLN3 disease had speech...
- A Concurrent Validity Study of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI) in Infants with an Elevated Likelihood or Diagnosis of Autismby Z Belteki on January 17, 2025
Infants at elevated likelihood for or later diagnosed with autism typically have smaller vocabularies than their peers, as shown by the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Developmental Inventory (CDI). However, the extent to which MSEL and CDI scores align remains unclear, especially across clinical and non-clinical populations. This study examined whether the concurrent validity of the MSEL and CDI differs based on autism likelihood and diagnosis. Data...