Language development following brain injury in early childhood: A longitudinal case study

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-249

  Trudeau, Natacha ^a   Poulin Dubois, Diane ^b   Joanette, Yves ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Child; Language acquisition; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; PLAY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 0034032264     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136828200247160     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. ALAJOUANINE, T. and LHERMITTE, F., 1965, Acquired aphasia in children. Brain, 88, 653-662.
2. BATES, E., MARCHMAN, V., THAL, D., FENSON, L., DALE, P., REZNICK, J. S., REILLY, J. and HARTUNG, J., 1994, Developmental and stylistic variation in the composition of early vocabulary. Journal of Child Language, 21, 85-123.
3. BATES, E., THAL, D., TRAUNER, D., FENSON, J., ARAM, D., EISELE, J. and NASS, R., 1997, From first words to grammar in children with focal brain injury. Developmental Neuropsychology, 13, 275-343.
4. BAYLEY, N., 1969, Manual for The Bayley Scales of Infant Development (New York: Psychological Corp.).
5. BLOOM, L. and LAHEY, M., 1978, Language Development and Language Disorders (New York: John Wiley and Sons).
6. BLOSSER, J. L. and DE POMPEI, R., 1994, Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Proactive Intervention (San Diego: Singular).
7. BROWN, R., 1973, A First Language (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).
8. CHAPMAN, R. S., 1981, Computing mean length of utterance in morphemes. In J. F. Miller (ed.), Assessing Language Production in Children: Experimental Procedures (Baltimore: University Park Press), pp. 22-25.
9. CHAPMAN, S. B., CULHANE, K. A., LEVIN, H. A., HARWARD, H., MENDELSOHN, D., EWING-COBBS, L., FLETCHER, J. M. and BRUCE, D., 1992, Narrative discourse after closed head injury in children and adolescents. Brain and Language, 43, 42-65.
10. CHAPMAN, S. B., LEVIN, H. S., MATEJKA, J., HARWARD, H. and KUFERA, J. A., 1995, Discourse ability in children with brain injury: correlations with psychosocial, linguistic and cognitive factors. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 10, 36-54.
11. EWING-COBBS, L., MINER, M. E., FLETCHER, J. M. and LEVIN, H. S., 1989, Intellectual, motor, and language sequelae following closed head injury in infants and preschoolers. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 14, 531-547.
12. FELDMAN, H. M., HOLLAND, A. L., KEMP, S. S. and JANOWSKY, J. E., 1992, Language development after unilateral brain injury. Brain and Language, 42, 89-102.
13. FENSON, L., DALE, P. S., REZNICK, J. S., BATES, E., THAL, D. J. and PETHICK, S. J., 1994, Variability in early communicative development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59, serial no. 242.
14. FENSON, L., DALE, P. S., REZNICK, J. S., THAL, D. J., BATES, E., HARTUNG, J. P., PETHICK, S. J. and REILLY, J. S., 1993, The MacArthur Communicative Inventories: User's Guide and Technical Manual (San Diego: Singular).
15. FRANK, I., TRUDEAU, N. and POULIN-DUBOIS, D., 1996, Inventaire MacArthur de la communication: Mots et énoncés. Unpublished.
16. FRÖSCHEL, E., 1918, Kindersprache und Aphasie (Berlin: S. Karger).
17. GOLINKOFF, R. M., MERVIS, C. B. and HIRSH-PASEK, K., 1994, Early object labels: the case for a developmental lexical principles framework. Journal of Child Language, 21, 125-155.
18. HÉCAEN, H., 1976, Acquired aphasia in children and the ontogenesis of hemispheric functional specialisation. Brain and Language, 3, 114-134.
19. IMAI, M., GENTNER, D. and UCHIDA, N., 1994, Children's theories of word meaning: the role of shape similarity in early acquisition. Cognitive Development, 9, 45-75.
20. JORDAN, F. M. and MURDOCH, B. E., 1990, Linguistic status following closed head injury in children: a follow-up study. Brain Injury, 4, 147-154.
21. JORDAN, F. M. and MURDOCH, B. E., 1993, A prospective study of the linguistic skills of children with closed-head injury. Aphasiology, 7, 503-512.
22. JORDAN, F. M., OZANNE, A. E. and MURDOCH, B. E., 1988, Long-term speech and language disorders subsequent to close head injury in children. Brain Injury, 2, 179-185.
23. JORDAN, F. M., OZANNE, A. E. and MURDOCH, B. E., 1990, Performance of closed head-injured children on a naming task. Brain Injury, 4, 27-32.
24. LENNEBERG, E. H., 1967, Biological Foundations of Language (New York: John Wiley).
25. LEVIN, H. S. and EISENBERG, H. M., 1979, Neuropsychological impairment after closed head injury in children and adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 4, 389-402.
26. MARCHMAN, V. A., MILLER, R. and BATES, E. A., 1991, Babble and first words in children with focal brain injury. Applied Psycholinguistics, 12, 1-22.
27. MARKMAN, E. M., 1989, Categorisation and Naming in Children. Problems of Induction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
28. MARKMAN, E. M. and HUTCHINSON, J. E., 1984, Children's sensitivity to constraints on word meaning: taxonomic versus thematic relations. Cognitive Psychology, 16, 1-27.
29. MERVIS, C. B. and BERTRAND, J., 1994, Acquisition of the novel name-nameless category (N3C) principle. Child Development, 65, 1646-1662.
30. PAQUIER, P. and VAN DONGEN, H. R., 1993, Current trends in acquired childhood aphasia. Aphasiology, 7, 421-440.
31. POULIN-DUBOIS, D., FRANK, I., GRAHAM, S. and ELKIN, A., 1999, The role of shape similarity in toddlers' lexical extensions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 21-36.
32. POULIN-DUBOIS, D., GRAHAM, S. and SIPPOLA, L., 1995, Early lexical development: The contribution of parental labelling and infants' categorisation abilities. Journal of Child Language, 22, 325-343.
33. SHALLICE, T., 1988, From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
34. TEASDALE, G. and JENNETT, B., 1974, Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness: a practical scale. Lancet, ii, 81-84.
35. TEMPLIN, M. C., 1957, Certain Language Skills in Children: Their Development and Interrelationships. Monograph no. 26 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press).
36. THAL, D. J., MARCHMAN, V., STILES, J., ARAM, D., TRAUNER, D., NASS, R. and BATES, E., 1991, Early lexical development in children with focal brain injury. Brain and Language, 40, 491-527.
37. TRUDEAU, N., FRANK, I. and POULIN-DUBOIS, D., 1999, Une adaptation en français québécois du MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory. Revue d'orthophonie et d'audiologie, 23, 61-73.
38. VARGHA-KHADEM, F., O'GORMAN, A. M. and WATTERS, G. W., 1985, Aphasia and handedness in relation to hemispheric side, age at injury and severity of cerebral lesion during childhood. Brain, 108, 667-696.
39. YLVISAKER, M., 1986, Language and communication disorders following pediatric head injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 1, 48-56.
40. YLVISAKER, M., 1993, Communication outcome in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 3, 367-387.