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H Amorosa

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PubMed1990

[Psychiatric manifestations in children with speech disorders with and without minimal brain dysfunction].

Several studies have shown not only that children with psychiatric problems are having more speech and language disorders than control groups. Moreover it has been shown that other developmental disorders are more common in groups with speech and language disorders. In a study in Munich including all children with diagnosis of specific developmental disorders of speech and language seen in our outpatient department from 1981 to 1986 we found significantly more psychiatric diagnoses in a subgroup of children with MBD. This was proved for the boys only however not for the smaller group of girls. The results are compared to studies reported in the literature and further research is suggested.

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity↗
PubMed1988

[Disorders of short-term memory, a necessary category in the multiaxial classification scheme?].

Problems with short-term memory have been reported in conjunction with numerous psychiatric disorders of childhood. Deficits in both visual and auditory short-term memory were found more frequently in a group of 23 children between the ages of 7 and 11 years with specific developmental speech and/or language disorders and in an unselected group of 23 children seen at the inpatient unit of a child psychiatry facility than in a control group of children of comparable age and sex without language or behavior problems. Because of the diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of visual and auditory short-term memory deficits, the authors argue for the inclusion of the disorder in the Multi-axial Classification Scheme.

Child↗
PubMed1986

Deficits in fine motor coordination in children with unintelligible speech.

An auditory and acoustic analysis was performed of the voice production of 24 children between 5 and 8 years of age with unintelligible speech and 24 children without speech or language deficits matched for age. Two aspects of voice production were assessed, prephonatory tuning and phonatory modulation. The categories used for the auditory assessment were preutterance vocalizations, abnormal initiation, rough voice, breathy voice, tense voice, voice tremor, intraphonemic disruption and pitch break. The acoustic analysis consisted of calculation of the mean fundamental frequency and the pitch perturbation factor in repetitions of the series of syllables /pa/, /ta/, /ka/. Intrasyllabic pitch breaks were also noted. The children with unintelligible speech had significantly more signs of abnormal prephonatory tuning and abnormal phonatory modulation than the control children. The findings suggest that voice production in unintelligible children has not yet become automatized. This possibility is discussed in relation to the central control of phonation.

Articulation Disorders↗
PubMed1986

[Incidence of psychiatric symptoms in 4- to 8-year-old children with unintelligible speech].

Twenty-four children between 4 years 5 months and 8 years of age with unintelligible spontaneous speech and at least average nonverbal intelligence were evaluated over a period of several hours. Nine of the children (37%) were found to have a psychiatric disorder, either a disturbance of emotions specific to childhood (ICD code 313) or a hyperkinetic syndrome (ICD code 314). No relationship was found between the presence of such a disorder and the severity of the speech/language disorder.

Affective Symptoms↗
PubMed1977

[Infantile autism].

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Autistic Disorder↗