Classification Of Language Disorders Research Articles

Dépistage des troubles du langage oral chez l’enfant et leur classification

Early identification of disorders of oral and written language development is essential for effective action before the vicious circle of educational failure and psycho-social consequences becomes established. Although there are still few diagnostic tools and they have not been fully evaluated, considerable effort has been made in recent years to develop instruments for detection as well as creating batteries for precise diagnostic evaluation. Language disorders may be related to another primitive disability (such as mental deficiency or deafness…). The classification of language disorders between two groups: secondary or specific, is essential for treatment. There has been growing awareness among health and education professionals that the means of recognizing, treating and teaching children with specific oral language disorders are inadequate, particularly as developments in cognitive neuropsychology have provided new approaches and treatments for such language disorders.

Theory of mind ability in children with specific language impairment

Whilst evidence of theory of mind impairments in children with autism is well established, possible impairments in children with language disorder have only recently been investigated. Children with specific language impairment aged between eight and 12 years were matched by age and gender to high functioning children with autism and normally developing peers. The theory of mind abilities of the groups were compared using the strange stories task. Both the children with specific language impairment and the children with autism gave fewer correct mental state answers than normally developing children, but whereas the children with autism gave more inappropriate mental state answers than the children who were developing normally, the children who were developing normally and the children with language disorders did not differ in this respect. These findings are discussed within the context of theory of mind issues in autism and the classification of language disorders.

Ciba Foundation Symposium: Disorders of Language.

This publication comes from another in a series of symposia fostered by the Ciba Foundation. This particular gathering took place in May of 1963 with Dr. Macdonald Critchley as Chairman. This discussion brought together workers in the fields of neurology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, psychiatry, and engineering with attention both to the faculty of speech in health and to the pathology of speech. The various contributors to this Symposium expressed their viewpoints as to how language is perceived, organized, transmitted, and understood. It was generally agreed that, at present and despite many decades of work, there is no satisfactory classification of language disorders. The basic anatomical dichotomy is the temporal lobe, sensory disorders versus the frontal lobe, motor disturbances. The temporal lobe is more concerned with decoding of signals, while the frontal lobe deals more with encoding. Language is the basis of communication, but it is also the expression of an