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Landau Kleffner Syndrome is a speech disorder that is developed in young children, usually around the age of three. It effects the part of the brain where the speech is. While the child may have perfect hearing, what is being processed may not be what is actually heard. This speech disorder is caused from a seizure, and most children, with the right help, can recover from it. With the loss of communication though, some children may develop behavioral or psychological problems.

OBJECTIVES:
1 Learning the basics to what Landau Kleffner Syndrome really is.
2 Seeing how a child may be effected by this Landau Kleffner Syndrome speech disorder.
3 How to help a child recover, such as in a classroom, or find devices and ways to help communicate with the child that will be beneficiary.

Child effected by LKS

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Landau Kleffner in the Classroom



This particular article contains studies on four different children who all have Landau-Kleffner syndrome. It obtains different information on different studies and medicines taken by the children. It also contains information on each child's diagnosis, such as when they were diagnosed and the different medicines they took and what ages they took them. For instance, the fourth child was diagnosed at five years and nine months and it tells that this child had surgical intervention, as well as different medicines. All the data helps to compare the children in reflecting on their learning abilities to help the teachers in the classrooms who have students with LKS. For example, the different color patterns are helpful for some, and for others its computer programs that help focus.
Theses studies help to make a generalization for children with Landau Kleffner Syndrome to find ways to cure it and help the children to get back to learning at the level they should be, but these studies also show that each child may vary slightly on they get back to learning at their level, much like children learn in differen
t ways.

Child Language Teaching & Therapy, Feb2002, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p23-42, 20p; Van Slyke, Patricia A; "Classroom Instruction for Children with Landau Kleffner Syndrome"

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