Disorders of language development, with particular reference to XXXX .

@entity1 @entity1032 @entity132 @entity914 @entity2319 @entity1897 @entity74 @entity1742 @entity5545
@entity74 may result in delay of language development. There is on the one hand a large group of @entity1 with bilateral @entity1897 , most of whom will be amenable to appropriate treatment, and on the other a group, possibly more numerous, who have a variety of disorders of speech and language, varying from lack of speech associated with severe @entity1032 to more specific defects, such as @entity5545 and @entity1742 . These disorders are probably due to a defect of cerebral function at the highest level and in these @entity1 no-one will have suspected @entity2319 or have suggested that there is an abnormal response to auditory stimuli. Some @entity1 will start life with such an abnormal response but as they grow older will cease to show the characteristics of @entity2319 . This group is analysed and it is suggested that some may be diagnosed as suffering from @entity2319 . The E. E. G./Audiogram is useful in the differenciation of these @entity1 from those with @entity2319 , especially at an early age when co-operation is limited, or when these are severe @entity132 or infantile @entity914 . This technique will be briefly discusses. @entity1 with @entity2319 may be included among those with disorders of language development, but it is possible that this disability may sometimes result from a failure of integration at a cortical level. The reason for suggesting this diagnostic category is to stress that these @entity1 do initially behave in a similar way to those who are perpherally deaf.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
