Language Disorders - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Severe Impairment Battery Language scale: a language-assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease patients.

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...

Treatment effects of Memantine on language in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease patients.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Language impairment is one of the most troublesome manifestations of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The objective of this post hoc analysis was to assess the treatment effects of Memantine on language in patients with moderate to severe AD, ... Read more...

Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk.

30 Jul 2009 Word finding difficulties in children are typically characterized by search behaviours such as silence, circumlocution, repetition, and empty words. Yet, how children's word searches are constructed (including gesture, gaze, and prosody) and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Language Disorders - Psychology'

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
• Treatment effects of Memantine on language in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease patients. 30 Aug 2009
• Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk. 30 Jul 2009
• The expressive elaboration of imaginative narratives by children with specific language impairment. 30 Jul 2009
• How do children ascribe gender to nouns? A study of Spanish-speaking children with and without specific language impairment. 29 Jun 2009
• Short-term memory (STM) constraints in children with specific language impairment (SLI): are there differences between receptive and expressive SLI? 30 May 2009
• Syntactic frames in fast mapping verbs: effect of age, dialect, and clinical status. 30 May 2009
• Comprehension and production of noun compounds by Estonian children with specific language impairment. 29 Apr 2009
• On the sensitivity and specificity of nonword repetition and sentence recall to language and memory impairments in children. 27 Apr 2009
• Sustained attention in children with specific language impairment (SLI). 27 Apr 2009
• Language and Parkinson's disease. 5 Apr 2009
• Statistical learning in children with specific language impairment. 30 Mar 2009
• Making a broader case for the narrow view: where to begin? 30 Mar 2009
• Is semantic processing impaired in individuals with high schizotypy? 30 Mar 2009
• Dyslexia: bridging the gap between hearing and reading. 22 Mar 2009
• Reduced neural integration of letters and speech sounds links phonological and reading deficits in adult dyslexia. 10 Mar 2009
• Auditory processing in speakers with acquired or developmental language disorders. Preface. 27 Feb 2009
• Backward and simultaneous masking in children with grammatical specific language impairment: no simple link between auditory and language abilities. 25 Feb 2009
• Using developmental trajectories to understand developmental disorders. 25 Feb 2009
• The case for the narrow view of reading. 3 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