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Oral language disorders in preschool children with epilepsy: a speech-language screening | |
Universidade Potiguar1  Melo, Áurea Nogueira de1  UFRN1  Maia, Eulália Maria Chaves1  Melo, Patrícia Danielle Falcão1  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte1  | |
关键词: Language Disorders; Epilepsy; Children; Preschoolers.; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0104-56872010000100011 | |
学科分类:医学(综合) | |
来源: Pró-Fono Produtos Especializados para Fonoaudiologia Ltda. | |
【 摘 要 】
BACKGROUND: oral language disorder and epilepsy in childhood. AIM: to verify the occurrence of oral language disorders in epileptic preschoolers attended at the Child Neurology Section of a university hospital. METHOD: a prospective study with 30 epileptic children who were submitted to an oral speech-language evaluation. Inclusion criteria: explicit diagnosis of epilepsy according to the ILAE (2005); ages between 3 to 6 years; normal neurological standard and neuropsychomotor development. Exclusion criteria: dubious diagnosis of epilepsy; altered neurological standard and neuropsychomotor development; children with associated pediatric disorders. Analyzed variables were: gender, age of first seizure, types of seizure and treatment regime. OR (odds ration) was determined, with a significance level of < 0.05. RESULTS: 18 (60%) children with epilepsy presented oral language disorders and 12 (40%) presented normal language development. Regarding the observed disorders, 12 (67%) presented language disorder and 6 (33%) presented phonological disorder. Male children (OR = 2.03) and those with partial seizure (OR = 2.41) demonstrated to have a higher risk for oral language disorders. CONCLUSION: the results indicate that preschoolers with epilepsy present a predominance of oral language development delay, and that the male gender and partial seizure are risk factors for this age group.
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