Titre du document / Document title

Speech delay due to a prelinguistic regression of epileptic origin

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

DUBOIS C. Mayor ⁽¹⁾ ; GIANELLA D. ⁽¹⁾ ; CHAVES-VISCHER V. ⁽¹⁾ ; HAENGGELI C.-A. ⁽²⁾ ; DEONNA T. ⁽¹⁾ ; PEREZ E. Roulet ⁽¹⁾ ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

⁽¹⁾ Neuropediatric Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, SUISSE
⁽²⁾ Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital Universitaire Genevois, Geneva, SUISSE

Résumé / Abstract

A 2-year-old boy presented with an early form of benign partial epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BCERS) and a severe speech delay. Family video analysis revealed an early regression of babbling and stagnation since the age of 12 months. Complete recovery occurred with anti-epileptic treatment. The deficit corresponded to a transient speech apraxia attributed to an epileptic disconnection of networks coordinating speech articulation. This observation is, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration that delayed emergence of language can be due to an epileptic dysfunction interfering with prelinguistic skills and therefore mimicking a developmental delay.

Revue / Journal Title

Neuropediatrics   ISSN 0174-304X   CODEN NRPDDB 

Source / Source

2004, vol. 35, n^o1, pp. 50-53 [4 page(s) (article)] (20 ref.)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Thieme, Stuttgart, ALLEMAGNE  (1980) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Central nervous system disease ; Cerebral disorder ; Nervous system diseases ; Language ; Epilepsy ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Système nerveux central pathologie ; Encéphale pathologie ; Système nerveux pathologie ; Langage ; Epilepsie ;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Sistema nervosio central patología ; Encéfalo patología ; Sistema nervioso patología ; Lenguaje ; Epilepsia ;

Mots-clés d'auteur / Author Keywords

Benign partial epilepsy ; language ; speech delay ; regression ;

Localisation / Location

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 15081, 35400011698447.0090