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language

Challenges in Language and Learning for children who have experienced traumatic brain injury (not specifically hemiplegia or stroke)

• Word finding difficulty

• Poor sentence formation

• Lengthy and often faulty descriptions and explanations - sometimes used to cover for a lack of understanding or inability to think of a word

• Difficulty in understanding multiple meanings in jokes, sarcasm, and adages or figurative expressions such as "A rolling stone gathers no moss" or "Take a flying leap."

• Simple and complex mathematical skills are sometimes affected

Language development in children who have hemiplegia and are stroke survivors is one area where we find specific studies relating to these children. Links to these studies are listed below.

Alternate brain organization after prenatal cerebral injury:  convergent fMRI and cognitive data  May 2003. University of California.

Brain reorganization in cerebral palsy: a high-field functional MRI study, June 2002. 1 subject, 15 years old, with perinatal left-sided hemiparesis.  Functional MRI was used to assess language. Australia.

Neuropsychology of cerebral palsy, June 2002. Reviews neuropsychological studies with reference to general
cognitive performance and specific performance (language, memory, attention and visuospatial functions). Spain.

Timing and type of congenital brain lesion determine different patterns of language lateralization in hemiplegic children 2002. Study provides evidence that within "congenital hemiplegias", strictly defined as hemiplegias whose causal lesion occurs before the end of the neonatal period, different recovery mechanisms are at work, depending on the type of brain lesion (neuropathology) which largely depends on the timing of insult (preterm vs. term period).

Early cognitive and communication development in children with focal brain lesions May 2001

Language development in children with congenital strokes

Cognitive and neuropsychological functioning in children with cerebral palsy Jan. 2001

Cognitive outcome of children with early-onset hemiparesis Sep. 2000

Online measures of basic language skills in children with early focal brain lesions Feb. 2000

Spatial grouping activity in children with early cortical and subcortical lesions Feb. 1998. Vicari, Stiles, Stern, Resca. Italy

Language development in children with congenital strokes June 1997

Acquired stuttering after a second stroke in a two-year-old Jan. 1994

Early lexical development in children with focal brain injury May 1991

Spatial grouping activity in young children with congenital right or left hemisphere brain injury. 1Mar. 1991,Stiles J, Nass R., University of California, San Diego.