Sensory and motor alalia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Alalia called the complete absence or underdevelopment of speech, is not caused by deficiency of intelligence and hearing. Such a speech disorder provoked by the defeat of the cerebral cortex, and therefore the child is not says a late start to say it is wrong, broken syllables structure, poor vocabulary stock. How to recognize the alalia and how to help your child?

Alalia when the child is not normal speech, it is either completely silent or speaks its own language, which is not understood by adults. Vocabulary in such a child is very poor, the proposal is only a few words or only sounds are present in the speech, stuttering can also be present.

Causes of alalia

In most cases alalia develops in utero and in early childhood, until about three years. The reasons for this are different neurological disease, including:

• mechanical trauma to the fetus during pregnancy or childbirth;
• a complicated pregnancy, accompanied by severe toxicity;
• the threat of termination of pregnancy at any stage;
• rapid or prolonged labor;
• birth trauma;
• fetal hypoxia;
• prematurity;
• surgery and use of obstetric instruments in childbirth;
• chronic diseases of women;
• infectious disease of the newborn;
• illness of a child in the first year of life (influenza, meningitis, pneumonia, rickets, surgery under general anesthesia);
• diseases of the endocrine system of the newborn;
• hereditary factor;
• dysfunctional family, pedagogical neglect.

Types and symptoms

Touch alalia. The reason for the development of sensory alalia is a pathology of the temporal region, this is the area responsible for perception and understanding of reverse speech, for the ability to distinguish between sounds. Often with a touch alalia child does not accept and does not respond to the request it, sensitive to certain sounds. In this case, self-conscious it is practically impossible, the child gesture, says meaningless set of sounds, repeats or reverses the sounds and syllables (perseveration), unconsciously repeating the wrong words (echolalia).

Children suffering from sensory alalia talk a lot, they have improved speech activity, but in their incoherent speech no sense. Children with mild alalia may perceive others' speech, in tempo, in word forms or read lips. In severe forms of sensory alalia the child there is a general intellectual underdevelopment and mental disorders.

Share the sensory and motor alalia, depending on what the speech centers of the brain are damaged.

Motor alalia. To this ailment causes damage to the fronto-parietal Broca's area, this is the center responsible for the speech motor function for the formation of sound language skills. This kind alalia characterized by the fact that the child understands and accepts the other's speech, but on their own can not speak.

Notice that something was wrong, you can at an early age, the baby does not coo, babble, only certain sounds, syllables appear after a year, and Phrase it about three years, vocabulary poor. The child is constantly rearranges syllables, which have a similar sound, is not able to agree on the end, which leads to a gross violation of the grammatical structure. All of these symptoms may appear and a healthy baby at the stage of speech, but to the school, it should already be correct.

In mild form generally alalia child's speech is clear, though a bit disconnected, but when there is a severe form onomatopoeia, gestures and facial expressions, the children very loud voice, they often suffer from a mental retardation or, conversely, hyperactive.

For motor alalia also characterized by the limitations of fine motor skills, the child is difficult to fasten buttons, fatigue, impaired memory, often associated with neurological diseases.

How to help your child?

Depending on the severity and variety alalia following treatment, but it is always complex. These medications, psychological and pedagogical correction. Often children with such a breach can not attend a regular school, so there are specialized pre-school institutions and correctional centers for them.

The treatment uses drugs alalia neotropic drugs, duration of use and dosage of the treating physician.

In the children's food ration to be present with a high content of proteins and carbohydrates. You need to take care of the immunity prescribed by a doctor to use vitamin and mineral supplements.

Children with problems in speech development prescribe physical therapy, water therapy is very positive effect, magnetic therapy, reflexology.

Required remedial work with a speech therapist, language exercises, logopedic massage, staging articulation organs.

Occupation with cards, molded from clay and sand, active development of fine motor skills helps the overall development and activates the speech centers in the brain.

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