Developmental aphasia

Developmental aphasia observed in a department of child psychiatry.

Recent experience in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, has shown that educational difficulties due to developmental aphasia were contributory aetiological factors in a wide variety of behaviour disorders. In the majority of patients the nature of the educational difficulties had not been recognized in time for them to obtain the maximum benef...

Aphasia

Aphasia

Aphasia may be defined as a total or partial loss of the use or understanding of language, the receptive and expressive organs of speech remaining intact. Since speech is an intellectual function, dependent upon the physiological activity of the underlying neural arrangements, the component units of which have an anatomical localization, the problem of aphasia may be considered from the psychol...

Exploring Aphasia in Kalhori

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, h...

Auditory and Linguistic Interaction in Developmental Aphasia: Evidence from Two Studies of Auditory Processing

The following paper describes the results of two studies of auditory processing and the implications of those studies for understanding deviant language development. The studies were conducted on children with the delayed language syndrome known as congenital, childhood, or developmental aphasia. Characteristic of this syndrome is the failure to develop adequate linguistic skills, even though o...