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Simptoms Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Here are the most common symptoms of Landau-Kleffner syndrome. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently.
Behavioral disturbances are extremely common in patients with SLK. They include hyperkinesias, outbursts of anger, defiance and aggressive manifestations. Some of these alterations may express a reaction to the frustration that is associated with language disorders.
Early signs are known as auditory agnostic, which make the child:
Suddenly having problems understanding what is said.
Appearing to have problems with hearing, you can think of the possibility of suffering from deafness.
Appearing to be autistic or developmentally delayed.
What Is Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Photo cameral SLK is a rare syndrome that occurs most often in boys than in girls. The onset occurs between 18 months and 13 years and three quarters of cases have their onset before age 7 for children, otherwise previously normal. In some cases, language development may have been somewhat delayed, however, is a clear regression constant verbal skills acquired previously.
The typical profile is: normal development and appropriate language in the first 3-7 years, loss of receptive language, retained some language expressive language “wire” with a few verbs, suspected deafness child’s frustration, surprised by their own change; behaviors similar to those of autism, IQ (IQ) nonverbal normal or above average, EEG abnormalities (EEG). Some experts suspect that some cases of childhood disintegrative disorder (CDD) or late onset of autism might actually be Landau-Kleffner syndromes.
The occurrence of the disorder is associated with paroxysmal abnormalities in the electroencephalogram (usually in the temporal lobes, usually in a bilateral, but often with a more generalized disorder disrítmico) and in most cases also of seizures. The onset usually occurs between three and seven years old, but can occur earlier or later in childhood. In a quarter of cases of language loss occurs gradually over a period of several months, but most often is that the loss is sudden, in the course of days or weeks.