Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in Children May Caused by Epileptic Brain Activity

Mansoura University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Specific Language Impairment

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: EEG was recorded by EEG Machines

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04141332

Mansoura University Hospital

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study was to find if there is a possible association and the impact of epilepsy and epileptiform activity in children with SLI.

Full description

This study concentrates on the impact of epileptiform activity for childhood epilepsy on the speech and language disturbances in addition to the associated social, cognitive and intellectual dysfunctions.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 80 children were suffering from specific language impairment
• 80 healthy children with age and sex match control group.

Exclusion criteria

• Previous history of perinatal hypoxic-ischemic damage
• meningitis or encephalitis
• motor weakness
• hearing disorders
• IQ below seventy
• CP, social deprivation
• autism and
• psychiatric disorders .

Trial design

160 participants in 2 patient groups

Group 1

Description:

80 Patient

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: EEG was recorded by EEG Machines

Group 2

Description:

80 Control subject

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: EEG was recorded by EEG Machines