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:
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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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- Neurological Manifestations of Aortic Dissection: A Scoping Reviewby Santiago Varela-Jaramillo on December 3, 2024
Aortic dissection (AD) is the most prevalent aortic pathology, with an incidence of 2.6-3.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants per year with mortality rates as high as 90% at 3 months without proper management. Despite the presence of typical symptoms, it has been reported that up to 38% of cases go unnoticed in the initial evaluation, either due to additional symptomatology or the absence of classic symptoms. In 28% of cases the diagnosis is made post-mortem, highlighting the severity and importance...
- Vocal cord dysfunction: Does laryngeal adduction on laryngoscopy predict disease severity and response to laryngeal retraining therapy?by David Ahmadian on December 3, 2024
CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that LRT should be utilized for all patients presenting with symptoms of VCD, even in the absence of laryngeal adduction on laryngoscopy.
- Accuracy of diagnostic tests for perilymphatic fistula: protocol for a systematic reviewby Maksym Situkho on December 3, 2024
Perilymphatic fistula (PLF) is a challenging inner ear condition, characterized by the abnormal connection between inner and middle ear and subsequent leakage of inner ear liquid (perilymph) into the middle ear. Early surgical intervention for PLF might lead to favorable audiological and vestibular outcomes. The conventional reference standard of PLF detection is the intraoperative visualization of perilymph leakage during explorative tympanotomy or endoscopic inspection; the specificity and...
- Recent communication disorders research through the lens of the sustainable development goalsby Anita Edwards on December 3, 2024
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