Speech and Language Characteristics of A Child with Congenital Left Hemisphere Atrophy: A Case Report

Year 2023, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 227 - 233, 31.12.2023

Zübeyir Tutuş Namık Yücel Birol

https://doi.org/10.58241/ksbd.20

Abstract

The effect of congenital left hemisphere deficit on speech and language skills remains unclear. The aim of this study was to describe the speech and language skills of a case with left hemisphere atrophy in the prenatal period. 4-year eight-month-old boy case’s receptive and expressive language skills were analysed by Turkish Early Language Development Test (TEDİL) and language sampling analysis, oral-motor skills by oral motor assessment, and speech intelligibility by Intelligibility in Context Scale-Turkish (ICS-TR). It was found that the case’s receptive language skills were below average, expressive language skills were weak, mean length of utterance (MLU) in words 1.08, MLU in morphemes 1.31, the family-reported score on the ICS-TR was 2.71 (maximum 5) and oral-motor skills were normal. The results of this study support that speech and language disorders may be observed in children with congenital left hemisphere deficit in the prenatal period.

Keywords

Congenital Brain Injury, Left Hemisphere Atrophy, Speech, Language

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