What can cause aphasia in children?
Aphasia can affect all aspects of a child’s language such as thinking of the right word, using the correct grammar when they talk or write and understanding what they hear or read. The most common cause of aphasia is stroke. Traumatic brain injury, brain tumours and some diseases can also cause aphasia.
What age is aphasia?
Symptoms begin gradually, often before age 65, and worsen over time. People with primary progressive aphasia can lose the ability to speak and write and, eventually, to understand written or spoken language.
How can I help my child with aphasia?
Speech and language therapy treatment available for aphasia
- Receptive language therapy.
- Expressive language therapy.
- Melodic intonation therapy.
- Computer based therapy.
- Reading therapy.
- Writing therapy.
- Increasing social communication.
Can toddlers have aphasia?
Aphasia in children is usually congenital, that is, present from birth. It is not strictly comparable with adult aphasia. Whereas in adulthood the fundamental problem is one of recovery or re-learning of language, in childhood, it is one of acquisition or development of language.
Can a child be born with aphasia?
How is aphasia diagnosed?
Your doctor will likely give you a physical and a neurological exam, test your strength, feeling and reflexes, and listen to your heart and the vessels in your neck. He or she will likely request an imaging test, usually an MRI, to quickly identify what’s causing the aphasia.
Can childhood aphasia be cured?
Some people with aphasia fully recover without treatment. But for most people, some amount of aphasia typically remains. Speech therapy can often help recover some speech and language functions over time.
What is the difference between aphasia and apraxia?
There are, though, distinct differences between the two. Aphasia describes a problem in a person’s ability to understand or use words in and of themselves. This may make it hard for someone with the condition to speak, read, or write. But apraxia does not describe a problem with language comprehension.