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Precocity of the acquisition of language and type II spinal muscular atrophy in 3–4-year-old children: a study of 12 cases

Christelle BenonyHervé Bénony

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Malemedicine.medical_specialtyVideo RecordingSpinal Muscular Atrophies of ChildhoodAudiologyLanguage DevelopmentVocabularymedicineHumansVideo recordingLanguage TestsCase-control studyMean ageGeneral MedicineLanguage acquisitionSMA*Play and PlaythingsSpinal muscular atrophy type IILanguage developmentCase-Control StudiesChild PreschoolPediatrics Perinatology and Child HealthFemaleNeurology (clinical)Physical handicapPsychology

description

We studied the development of language in 3-4-year-old children with type II spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) (10 boys and two girls), aged 36-47 months (mean age 39.83+/-4.68 months) and compared our findings to a control group of 26 healthy children (mean age 40.00+/-4.43 months, 22 boys and four girls). We carried out a lexicogrammatical analysis of the data and we observed significant differences in the "vocabulary", "nouns", "verbs", "words" and "adverbs" variables between the children with SMA and the controls. Three- to four-year-old children suffering from type II spinal muscular atrophy, an autosomal genetic disease causing severe physical handicap (motor, functional, respiratory), presented a higher level of lexical and semantic development than the controls, demonstrating the precocity of development of morphosyntax in these children.

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2005-03-01European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpn.2005.02.001