Acquired Neurological Speech/Language Disorders in Childhood [electronic resource] / edited by Bruce E. Murdoch.
The long-held belief that acquired aphasia in children is primarily of the non-fluent type has been challenged in recent years. It is also now apparent that children with acquired aphasia have a number of features in common with developmental language-learning disabilities, especially if the linguis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
1990.
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| Series: | Brain damage, behaviour, and cognition.
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| Summary: | The long-held belief that acquired aphasia in children is primarily of the non-fluent type has been challenged in recent years. It is also now apparent that children with acquired aphasia have a number of features in common with developmental language-learning disabilities, especially if the linguistic deficits persist long-term. Consequently, in addition to discussing language problems arising from cerebro-vascular accidents occurring in childhood, detailed discussion of each of the childhood linguistic deficits caused by other aetiologies, including head injury infections, cerebral anoxia, neural tube defects, brain tumours and metabolic disorders is presented in this book. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203224736 9780203224731 9780203489932 0203489934 9780850664904 085066490X 9780850664911 0850664918 1280428996 9781280428999 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |