Prelingual Deafness

Vernon, McCay; Rothstein, David A.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1968.01740090105011

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“…Discussions of a potentially unique clinical disorder in the deaf mental health field appear to have begun in the 1960s [45–48]. Psychiatric diagnosis of deaf patients was described as extremely complex and time-consuming [49].…”

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“…Deaf patients have been described in the historical psychiatric literature as having more negative personality traits than the general population, such as denial, lack of insight, immaturity, impulsivity, lack of insight, as well as increased rage and aggression [37,48,52,64]. This is echoed by Cooper [59], who proposed that the most common disorders in the deaf psychiatric literature at the time were “problems of behavior and maladjustment apparently related to deafness.” The view of deafness has historically been heavily negative, seemingly attributing various psychiatric symptoms to the experience of being deaf itself.…”

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Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins

Hall

Levin

Anderson

2017

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

163

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Purpose There is a need to better understand the epidemiological relationship between language development and psychiatric symptomatology. Language development can be particularly impacted by social factors, as seen in the developmental choices made for deaf children which can create language deprivation. A possible mental health syndrome may be present in deaf patients with severe language deprivation. Methods Electronic databases were searched to identify publications focusing on language development and mental health in the deaf population. Screening of relevant publications narrowed the search results to 35 publications. Results Although there is very limited empirical evidence, there appears to be suggestions of a mental health syndrome by clinicians working with deaf patients. Possible features include language dysfluency, fund of knowledge deficits, and disruptions in thinking, mood, and/or behavior. Conclusion The clinical specialty of deaf mental health appears to be struggling with a clinically observed phenomenon that has yet to be empirically investigated and defined within the DSM-5. Descriptions of patients within the clinical setting suggest a language deprivation syndrome. Language development experiences have an epidemiological relationship with psychiatric outcomes in deaf people. This requires more empirical attention and has implications for other populations with behavioral health disparities as well.

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Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins

Hall

Levin

Anderson

2017

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

163

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“…Studies have shown that the first five years are the most important for brain maturation, with particular emphasis on the second year. There is a critical period in neurological development when the brain is more susceptible to language acquisition (Vernon and Rothstein, 1968). The first four years form this critical period for the acquisition of language (Rubin, 1984).…”

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Otitis media and language performance in learning disabilities

Maritz¹,

Uys²,

Louw³

1988

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This study was designed to determine the influence of otitis media on the language performance of learning-disabled children and non-learning-disabled children.Four experimental groups were used, viz: learning-disabled children, divided into those with and without a history of recurrent otitis media and average academic achievers again divided into those with and without a history of recurrent otitis media. The language performance of each experimental group was determined using the Clinical Evaluation and Language Function (Wiig and Semel, 1980).The results indicate that recurrent otitis media impaired the receptive and expressive language performance of the subjects used in this study. The impairment of receptive language was greater than for expressive language. Implications for diagnosis, treatment and further research are discussed.

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Brief report: Ear infections in autistic and normal children

Konstantareas¹,

Homatidis²

1987

J Autism Dev Disord

106

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The frequency of ear infections, ear tube drainage, and deafness was examined through parental reports in autistic and yoke-matched, normal children. For the autistic group these difficulties were additionally examined as a function of the children's cognitive and communication abilities, verbal versus nonverbal status, sex, and degree of autistic symptomatology. Autistic children had a greater incidence of ear infections than matched normal peers. Lower-functioning children had an earlier onset of ear infections than their higher-functioning autistic peers. Ear infections coexisted with low-set ears, and with a higher autistic symptomatology score. The findings are discussed in terms of greater CNS vulnerability in the autistic children, which is likely present since embryogenesis. The possible adverse consequences of intermittent hearing loss on language, cognitive, and socioaffective development are considered.

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Prelingual Deafness

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins

Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins

Otitis media and language performance in learning disabilities

Brief report: Ear infections in autistic and normal children

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