Original scientific paper

Some Ethiologic Factors of Speech Comprehension Disturbances

N. Šikić
A. Vrca
D. Božičević
N. Tudorić

Abstract

Disturbances of speech comprehension were analyzed in a prospective study of 97
children, aged from 23 to 77 months. Pregnancy, birth and early psychomotor development
were normal for all the children and no focus of neurological deficit was found. A
tonal audiometer did not detect any auditory disturbances, and psychological testing
with non-verbal tests showed normal mental functioning for the age. In this group of selected
subjects, family and personal case histories were taken. In addition, a detailed
neurological physical examination, standard EEG and auditory evoked potentials, and
a psychiatric examination were performed during several appointments. The results
showed that disturbances in speech comprehension were more frequent in boys, and
that in 13.4% of cases it was caused by pervasive developmental disturbances and in
41.24% of cases by external stimulating factors of speech development (pedagogy, social
and emotional stimulation and growing up in a multilingual community). The study
emphasizes the importance of non-verbal methods for the study of speech and the use of
auditory evoked potentials.

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Hrčak ID:

28253

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/28253

Publication date:

17.6.2002.

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