Developmental Language Disorders: Nosologic Considerations

Cortical sound processing in children with autism disorder: an MEG investigation

“…Our findings reported here for typically developing children, with a dynamic range of latency modulation for the 200-1000 Hz tones of 10-15 ms (Fig. 2), are in good accord with our previous MEG findings for adults [7], as well as findings reported in the EEG literature [8,9,14]. Although M100 latency is in general longer in children than in adults, the dynamic range (at 10-15 ms) of M100 modulation by tone frequency in the control group was similar in magnitude to our previous reports for healthy adult.…”

Children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and pragmatic language impairment: Differences and similarities in pragmatic ability

“…Although language related abilities often have been considered to be a strength in children with SB and hydrocephalus (SBH), SBH was one of the first conditions associated with pragmatic problems, at the time labelled as "cocktail party syndrome" (Hadenius, Hagberg, Hyttnes-Bensch & Sjögren, 1962;Tew, 1979;Rapin & Allen, 1983). More recently, e.g.…”

“…Children with PLI have been described to demonstrate symptoms such as impaired comprehension of discourse, notably questions; verbosity and poor maintenance of topic manifested as topic shifts and drifts (Rapin & Allen, 1983;Rapin, 1996;Bishop, 1997); to provide too little or too much information (Leinonen et al, 2000); to have fluent expressive language that is not distinctly communicative and/or appropriate (Rapin & Allen, 1983, Bishop, 1997; to produce a large quantity of initiatives (Bishop & Adams, 1989) and to have difficulty in the ability to make inferences (Letts & Leinonen, 2001;Norbury & Bishop, 5 2002). Thus, PLI shares a number of pragmatic and language problems associated particularly with SBH, but also to some extent with CP.…”

Le symptôme dans la psychothérapie d'un enfant dysphasique: analyse de sa fonction dynamique dans une perspective psychanalytique

“…Dans cet article, nous proposons de réfléchir, dans une perspective psychodynamique, à la fonction du symptôme comme support d'élaboration psychique, dans le cadre de la psychothérapie d'un enfant présentant une dysphasie (Rapin et Allen, 1983Gérard, 1991) plus fréquemment appelée aujourd'hui trouble spécifique du langage oral (Uzè, 2000). Actuellement, dans le champ des troubles instrumentaux, l'évolution des connaissances conduit à une approche compréhensive multifactorielle permettant une lecture dans une triple perspective épistémologique, à savoir, neurobiologique, cognitive et psychodynamique (Dupuis, C. 2000).…”