JSHD
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders Vol.55 567-581 August 1990.
© American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow My Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Campbell, T. F.
Right arrow Articles by Dollaghan, C. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Campbell, T. F.
Right arrow Articles by Dollaghan, C. A.

Expressive Language Recovery in Severely Brain-Injured Children and Adolescents

Thomas F. Campbell 1 and Christine A. Dollaghan 2

1 Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
2 University of Pittsburgh

The spontaneous expressive language abilities of 9 severely brain-injured children and adolescents and their age-matched normal controls were examined seven times over a 12-month period following injury. Analysis of conversational language samples revealed a relatively stable pattern of language performance for the normal subjects over this time interval. The brain-injured subjects, as a group, demonstrated improvement on the majority of measures, but only a few reached the level of their control subjects and interindividual variability was considerable. Results suggest that the prognosis for clinically significant improvement in severely brain-injured subjects is good; however, deficits in expressive skills remain apparent up to at least 12 months following injury.

Key Words: expressive language • recovery • head-injured • children • adolescents

Submitted on October 31, 1989
Accepted on January 4, 1990




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Child NeurolHome page
P. D. Adelson and P. M. Kochanek
Topical Review: Head Injury in Children
J Child Neurol, January 1, 1998; 13(1): 2 - 15.
[Abstract] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
All ASHA Journals AJA AJSLP JSLHR LSHSS
Copyright © 1990 by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.