Neuropsychological approach in the correction of specific language impairment among older preschool children

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Pyoryshkova
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Speech Disorders ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Mental Functions ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Higher Mental Functions

Theoretical and methodological analysis substantiated the expediency of using a neuropsychological approach in correctional, developmental and speech therapy work with children with specific language impairment. The features of the functioning of the higher mental functions of a child with disabilities are considered. The analysis of the development of higher mental functions, mental processes, formation of cognitive and motor spheres of a child with disabilities allows to identify the potential of their development, relying on preserved mental functions. This makes it possible to make a more detailed prognosis of development, an individual plan of correctional and developmental and speech therapy work based on an integrated approach, using a complete system analysis of the child’s higher mental functions. We analyze in the context of the application of neuropsychological technologies the process of correcting the specific language impairment among older preschool children. The neuroscience has a huge role in solving problems of related scientific fields: pedagogy, psychology, defectology. The use of neuropsychological technologies and techniques is effective in correctional and speech therapy work with children with specific language impairment. The application of the neuropsychological approach makes it possible to in-depth analysis of the structure of the speech defect, allows to identify both the symptoms of speech disorders and the insufficiency of higher mental functions of the child. Therefore, the neuropsychological approach in correcting the specific language impairment among older preschoolers allows to get a more complete picture of the possibilities of developing higher mental functions of the child and organize speech therapy based on preserved mental functions.

scholarly journals Association of epileptiform brain activity and specific language impairment (SLI) in preschool children

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Esmael ◽  
Sara Elsherbeny ◽  
Mohammed Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Intelligence Quotient ◽  
Epileptiform Activity ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Cognitive Age ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Epileptiform activities can cause transient or permanent deficits that affect the children during development and may be accompanied by neurodevelopmental disorders like specific language impairment. Objectives The objective of this study was to find if there is a possible association and the impact of epilepsy and epileptiform activity in children with specific language impairment. Patients and methods The study was conducted on 80 children suffering from specific language impairment and 80 age and sex match healthy control children. Computed tomography brain was performed and electroencephalography was recorded for children. Intelligence quotient level, cognitive age, social, and phoniatric assessment were done for all patients. Results Eighty children with specific language impairment (51 males and 29 females) with a mean age of 4.11 ± 1.93. Patients with specific language impairment showed significantly higher rates of abnormal electroencephalography (P = 0.006) and epilepsy (P < 0.001) compared to the control group. Spearman correlation demonstrated a highly negative significant relationship linking the language, intelligence quotient with abnormal electroencephalography and epilepsy (r = − 0.91, P < 0.01 and r = − 0.91, P < 0.01 respectively). Also, there was a moderately inverse significant relationship linking the cognitive age, social with abnormal electroencephalography, and epilepsy (r = − 0.70, P < 0.05 and r = − 0.65, P < 0.05 respectively). Conclusion Epileptiform activities even without epilepsy in preschool children may alter normal language function. Specific language impairment was associated with lower intelligence quotient levels, social, and cognitive age. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04141332

Another Look at Nonverbal Rule Induction in Children With SLI

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kiernan ◽  
David Snow ◽  
Linda Swisher ◽  
Rebecca Vance
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Discrimination Learning ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Rule Induction ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Language Groups

This study focuses on the ability of preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI) to extract target regularities from recurring nonverbal stimuli. As a step beyond previous methodologies, we also assessed their ability to shift and extract other regularities after feedback indicated that their choices were no longer correct. This step was motivated by Connell and Stone's (1994) hypothesis that difficulties manifested by children with SLI in extracting nonverbal "rules" from multiple problem sets may reflect difficulties in "flexible reconceptualization," that is, in the ability to flexibly shift across regularities. Thirty 4- and 5-year-olds with SLI and 30 age-matched children developing language normally participated in a discrimination learning-shift paradigm. Findings indicated that both language groups were successful in extracting regularities and making shifts. In fact, language groups did not differ in number of regularities extracted, number of shifts completed, or trials to criterion. As a consequence, findings failed to provide evidence that children with SLI are limited in either the ability to extract nonverbal regularities or to flexibly reconceptualize them. From a larger theoretical perspective, the findings fail to support theories positing that generalized "rule-induction" deficits underlie the verbal and nonverbal impairments of SLI.

A Preliminary Investigation of Reduplication in Children with Specific Language Impairment

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Lahey ◽  
Judy Flax ◽  
Gloria Schlisselberg
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Whole Word

The frequency of reduplication was examined in relation to syllable maintenance, final consonant production, and whole word repetitions in two preschool children with specific language impairment—one who reduplicated frequently and one who did so infrequently. Spontaneous speech was sampled for a period of 18 months. During the single-word utterance period, reduplication was associated with infrequent production of final consonants but frequent maintenance of multisyllabic structure. After the single-word utterance period the child who had frequently reduplicated during this period ceased reduplication but frequently produced whole word repetitions. Infrequent production of final consonants continued, but syllable maintenance decreased. The data are discussed in relation to hypotheses about the function of reduplication and the function of whole word repetitions in language development.

Language and theory of mind in preschool children with specific language impairment

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 428-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Jeffrey Farrar ◽  
Bonnie Johnson ◽  
Virginia Tompkins ◽  
Molly Easters ◽  
Andrea Zilisi-Medus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language
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