Language Development and CSWSS Epilepsy Syndrome

Down Syndrome And Language Development

Language and communicative development in Williams syndrome.

Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by a microdeletion of approximately 25 genes on chromosome 7q11.23, is associated with mild to moderate intellectual disability or learning difficulties. Most individuals with Williams syndrome evidence a cognitive profile including relative strengths in verbal short-term memory and language, and considerable weakness in visuospatial construction. Th...

Language and communication development in Down syndrome.

Although there is considerable variability, most individuals with Down syndrome have mental retardation and speech and language deficits, particularly in language production and syntax and poor speech intelligibility. This article describes research findings in the language and communication development of individuals with Down syndrome, first briefly describing the physical and cognitive pheno...

Vagus nerve stimulation in a case of epilepsy with CSWSS: respiratory side effects during sleep.

We would like to alert the medical community to possible respiratory side effects of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) during the treatment of nonsurgical refractory partial epilepsy. We observed hypopneic–polypneic episodes during sleep in a 9-year-old girl with epilepsy with continuous spike–waves during slow sleep (CSWSS) syndrome. These events were time-locked to each period of VNS stimulation ...

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...