Acquired Childhood Aphasia with Focus on Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Munster (Englisches Seminar), course: Cognitive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: "e;Aphasia is the neurological term for any language disorder that results from brain damagecaused by disease or trauma. 1 The disorder is not exclusively found in adults, but mayalso occur in children. To lose the ability to understand and produce language may be amajor catastrophe for children and has enormous consequences for their whole life, even ifspeech is regained after some time.2 Therefore, it is astonishing how little is known aboutthe subject and how controversially it is discussed in literature. This paper introduces intoacquired childhood aphasia with focus on a syndrome called Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, inwhich aphasia and epilepsy are combined. Landau-Kleffner Syndrome will be discussed inregard to symptoms, aetiology, therapy and prognosis. Moreover, it will be compared toother forms of acquired childhood aphasia.