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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

Is Sign-Language Beneficiary?

Sign-language is the use of hand motions to speak non verbally, which is used by many deaf or hard of hearing people. But can it help children with Landau Kleffner Syndrome to learn their speech quicker? Maybe not quicker, but sign language proves to be very helpful when teaching speech, as well as helping the child with communication, therefore not having him or her in isolation. By the child learning sign language, it helps to train the brain for auditory and speech training.
So in the long run, yes, sign language is proven to be beneficiary to a child with Landau Kleffner Syndrome. It shows to help the child communicate, while they can not speak the words. It also can help the child to speak better in the long run to pronounce the words that they sign.

Epilepsia. 2009 Aug; 50 Suppl 7:77-82 Eplie; Deonna T, Prelaz-Girod AC, Mayor-Dubois C, Roulet-Perez E.

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