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Language Disorders - Diagnosis
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Definition of 'Language Disorders'Conditions characterized by deficiencies of comprehension or expression of written and spoken forms of language. These include acquired and developmental disorders. Common names: Language Disorders; Language Disorder; Acquired Language Disorders; Acquired Language Disorder; Language Disorder, Acquired; Language Disorders, Acquired |
Monday, November 23, 2009
30 Aug 2009 
BACKGROUND: Communication problems are common in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but instruments to assess these symptoms are limited. Our objective was to create a new scale, based on the language subscale of the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), ... Read more...
30 Aug 2009 This study aimed to measure semantic inhibitory capacities in persons with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI), in healthy older and younger adults. This was done by relying on a computerized adaptation of the ... Read more...
The assessment of auditory function in CSWS: lessons from long-term outcome.
30 Jul 2009 In Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), the prominent and often first symptom is auditory verbal agnosia, which may affect nonverbal sounds. It was early suggested that the subsequent decline of speech expression might result from defective auditory ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Language Disorders - Diagnosis'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
- Semantic inhibition impairment in mild cognitive impairment: a distinctive feature of upcoming cognitive decline? 30 Aug 2009
- The assessment of auditory function in CSWS: lessons from long-term outcome. 30 Jul 2009
- CMIP and ATP2C2 modulate phonological short-term memory in language impairment. 28 Jul 2009
- Language in pediatric epilepsy. 12 Jul 2009
- Autism spectrum disorder in fragile X syndrome: a longitudinal evaluation. 30 May 2009
- Impairments in memory and hippocampal function in HIV-positive vs HIV-negative women: a preliminary study. 10 May 2009
- Determinants of lexical access in pure-anomic recovery: a longitudinal study.
29 Apr 2009 - [The Mottier test : psychometric evaluation using scores from children age 4-6 years] 29 Apr 2009
- On the sensitivity and specificity of nonword repetition and sentence recall to language and memory impairments in children. 27 Apr 2009
- Response to intervention and dynamic assessment: do we just appear to be speaking the same language? 25 Apr 2009
- Response to intervention and English-language learners: instructional and assessment considerations. 25 Apr 2009
- Implementation of responsiveness to intervention in early education settings. 25 Apr 2009
- Verbal repetition in people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer Disease: a descriptive analysis from the VISTA clinical trial. 30 Mar 2009
- Is semantic processing impaired in individuals with high schizotypy? 30 Mar 2009
- Identification of children with language impairment: investigating the classification accuracy of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, Level III. 28 Mar 2009
- Cerebral hemodynamics and cognitive performance in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis. 22 Mar 2009
- Neuropsychological and functional MRI studies provide converging evidence of anterior language dysfunction in BECTS. 7 Mar 2009
- Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders. 25 Feb 2009
- Communicative abilities in toddlers and in early school age children with cleft palate. 8 Feb 2009
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Technical information about 'Language Disorders'
Definition: Conditions characterized by deficiencies of comprehension or expression of written and spoken forms of language. These include acquired and developmental disorders.
Descriptor UI: D007806
Alternative terms: Language Disorders; Language Disorder; Acquired Language Disorders; Acquired Language Disorder; Language Disorder, Acquired; Language Disorders, Acquired;
Related Mesh Headings: Speech Disorders;
Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;
Tree Number: C10.597.606.150.500; C23.888.592.604.150.500;
History Note: 1967
Technical Notes: /ther: consider also LANGUAGE THERAPY; do not confuse with SPEECH DISORDERS: read differentiation of LANGUAGE & SPEECH under LANGUAGE; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS: see note there