Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: Acta Neurol Scand. 1996 Jun;93(6):428-36.
Related Articles, Links

Comment in:
Acta Neurol Scand. 1997 Apr;95(4):253-5.

Review of research on the clinical presentation of acquired childhood aphasia.

Paquier PF, Van Dongen HR.

Department of Neurology, University Hospital Erasme, Free University of Brussels ULB, Belgium.

AIMS: The traditional description of the clinical picture of acquired childhood aphasia (ACA) claims that ACA is invariably nonfluent, that recovery of language disorder is rapid and complete, and that ACA commonly occurs after right hemisphere damage. However, since the late 1970s the publication of several case studies has led to reject this longstanding standard doctrine. This review, which concerns the revised insights into ACA, aims at making an inventory of the recently described aphasic symptomatologies and neuroradiological data. MATERIAL: The literature on ACA with emphasis on the studies published since 1978. RESULTS: Recent case studies show a great variety of aphasic symptomatologies including auditory comprehension disorders, paraphasias, neologisms, logorrhoea, jargon, impaired repetition abilities, and a host of linguistic deficits in reading and writing. Not only the typology of the aphasias but also the recently established clinicoradiological correlations appear to resemble those found in adults. Also, recovery from ACA shows to be less complete than previously thought. CONCLUSION: These findings bear consequences as to theories on cerebral organization of language in childhood. It appears that already in infancy the two cerebral hemispheres are no equal substrate for language representation. Therefore, prognosis and final outcome of ACA are not uniformly favourable.

Publication Types:
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review

PMID: 8836305 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

You are viewing a mobilized version of this site...
View original page here

How do you rate mobile version of this page?

Mobilized by Mowser Mowser