Risk factors identification in children with speech disorders: pilot study

Abstract

The protocol allows establishing the main risk factors related to children with speech and language disorders. It is suggested that children who present with one or more of the aforementioned risk factors should be regularly monitored for speech and language development and, if necessary, referred for early intervention.

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Communication Disorders: Influences of Advanced Parental Age and Use of Assisted Reproductive Technology

“…The risk was not increased for fathers over the age of 35 with a fertility issue. These findings suggest that the risk of having a child with a CD was significantly increased with either advanced maternal or paternal age at the time of conception, as has been shown in other studies (e.g., Hyrapetian et al 2014;Silva et al 2013). The risk of having a child diagnosed with ASD was slightly increased with advanced paternal at the time of conception, but the risk was not affected with advanced maternal age.…”

“…Many researchers studying ASD epidemiology agree that a combination of environmental and genetic risk factors likely contributes to the increased incidence of ASD (see Chaste and Leboyer 2012;Croen et al 2007;Hallmayer et al 2011;Kong et al 2012). Although past research has not considered ART use specifically as a risk factor for CD, research does suggest that parental age, particularly maternal age, and other pre-, peri-, and post-natal variables (e.g., prematurity, congenital disorders and syndromes, many of which have been associated with ART use, e.g., Lu et al 2013), are risks for various CDs (e.g., Hyrapetian et al 2014;Silva et al 2013).…”

“…In particular, advanced paternal age has been implicated in a higher risk of having a child with ASD (e.g., Shimada et al 2012), and both younger and older mothers have an increased risk for having a child with a CD (Silva et al 2013). Despite the documented increased risks to both mother and baby associated with pregnancy at an advanced maternal age (e.g., Croen et al 2007;Mills and Lavender 2011;Sandin et al 2012), women in developed countries are delaying the start of their families until their late 30s and early 40s.…”

Perfil populacional de Grupo de Avaliação e Prevenção de Alterações de Linguagem (GAPAL)

“…Regarding the distribution of initial complaints, which prompted the search for the service, most cases (63.6%) were demand for SLP services (5,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) , some of which (5,10,12) found a proportion of two to three boys for every girl. The authors have posed hypothesis that could justify such occurrence and, even without any scientific proof, the fact that boys present slower brain maturation than girls, apart from the possible influence of genetic factors, seem to justify the higher incidence of complaints in this gender.…”

Prevalência de alterações fonoaudiológicas em pré-escolares da rede pública e os determinantes sociais

“…The socioeconomic disadvantages have been identified as a risk factor for development, for the child who lives in a poor environment is more susceptible to deprivation of stimuli that can result in behavior and socialization problems, impairing learning, and the development of language 21 . In this study, it can be seen that there is no relation between parental income and speech-language disorders.…”