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Few of the 150 publications or more dealing with Landau-Kleffner syndrome have properly addressed the issues concerning speech therapy. The place taken by speech therapy has in fact varied according to the explanatory model to report on the syndrome’s particular evolutionary pattern. In our review of the speech therapy approach for our 18 Landau-Kleffner cases, the situation is revealed as unsatisfactory; therapeutic treatment can rarely be programmed on a long term basis and in a systematized way. The choice between alternative systemes and a reconstruction of oral language seems to us an oversimplified approach to the discussion. A direct approach to receptive difficulties is not applicable to these children. We prefer a restoring approach, passing through the neurocognitive analysis of linguistic difficulties. We illustrate this choice with one particular case as an example.
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Gerard, C.L., Dugas, M., Sagar, D. (1991). Speech Therapy in Landau and Kleffner Syndrome. In: Martins, I.P., Castro-Caldas, A., van Dongen, H.R., van Hout, A. (eds) Acquired Aphasia in Children. NATO ASI Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3582-5_23
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