Language Therapy For Pure Word Deafness in Children

Classroom instruction for children with Landau-Kleffner Syndrome

“…Worster-Drought (1971) also supported the use of reading to teach language, especially for those children whose receptive language comprehension remained severely impaired. Finally, Suzuki and Notoya (1980) determined from their case study that written language was of bene t to those children who presented with auditory verbal agnosia.…”

Educational and therapeutic approaches used with a child presenting with acquired aphasia with convulsive disorder (Landau-Kleffner Syndrome)

“…Huskisson (1973) outlines the successful use of written language to develop spoken language in a child with acquired receptive aphasia, using a colour pattern scheme as described by Lea (1965Lea ( , 1979. Suzuki and Notoya (1980) describe another approach to language learning through written language in a child with pure word deafness. Jordan (1980) reported good results in a case following an intensive course of therapy directed at encouraging the child to ask for clarification when he did not understand, at improving understanding of instructions in a hierarchy of noise conditions, and at improving syntactic elements of expressive language, in conjunction with an increase in anti-convulsant medication.…”