Acquired Aphasia in Children: Acquisition and Breakdown of Language in the Developing Brain (NATO Science Series D:, 60)

"One of the most fascinating problems in Behavioural Neurology is the question of the cerebral organization for language during childhood. Acquired aphasia in children, albeit rare, is a unique circumstance in which to study the relations between language and the brain during cerebral maturation. Its study further contributes to our understanding of the recovery processes and brain plasticity during childhood. But while there is a great amount of information and experimental work on brain-behaviour relationships in adult subjects, the literature about the effects of focal brain lesions in children is both exiguous and scattered throughout scientific journals and books. We felt it was time to organize a meeting where scientists in this field could compare their experiences and discuss ideas coming from different areas of research. A workshop on Acquired Aphasia in Children was held in Sintra, Portugal, on September 13-15, 1990, and attended by 44 participants from 13 differents countries. The atmosphere was relaxed and informal and the group was kept small to achieve this effect. It was a very lively and pleasant meeting. Some consensus was indeed arrived at concerning methodological problems, definition of terms, and guidelines for future research. The main contributions are collected in this book which, we hope, will serve the scientific community as a reference work on Childhood Aphasia. I, P.M., AC. C"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Acquisition of Language in Normally Developing Children: Some Basic Strategies and Approaches....Pages 15-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Patient Selection in Studies of Aphasia Acquired in Childhood....Pages 27-34 Analysis of Lesion Localization and Size....Pages 35-44 Clinical Techniques to Assess Language in Young Children....Pages 45-53 Test Battery for Language and Speech Assessment....Pages 55-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 The Ontogenesis of Hemispheric Specialization: Insights from Acquired Aphasia of Childhood....Pages 73-81 Crossed Aphasia as a Model of Atypical Specialization....Pages 83-93 Symptom Pattern and Recovery Outcome in Childhood Aphasia: A Methodological and Theoretical Critique....Pages 95-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Characteristics of Language in Acquired Aphasia in Children....Pages 117-124 Fluent Aphasia in Children....Pages 125-141 Type of Aphasia and Lesions’ Localization....Pages 143-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Outcome of Acquired Aphasia in Childhood: Prognosis Factors....Pages 163-169 Recovery from Aphasia and Lesion Size in the Temporal Lobe....Pages 171-184 Acquired Childhood Aphasia: Outcome One Year After Onset....Pages 185-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Scholastic Achievement After Early Brain Lesions....Pages 203-212 Late Sequelae of Right Versus Left Hemispheric Lesions....Pages 213-224 Selective Deficits in Language Comprehension Following Early Left and Right Hemisphere Damage....Pages 225-238 The Role of Central Activation (Arousal) in the Recovery of Cognitive Functions after Cerebral Injury in Children....Pages 239-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 The Conception and Embarrassing Birth of an Eponym....Pages 247-251 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 The Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: Diagnostic Considerations....Pages 253-261 Natural History, Course and Prognosis of the Landau and Kleffner Syndrome....Pages 263-277 Speech Therapy in Landau and Kleffner Syndrome....Pages 279-290 The Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: Rehabilitation....Pages 291-297 Back Matter....Pages 299-312