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OBJECTIVE: ERTL (Epreuves de Repérage de Troubles de Langage) tests have been designed as a screening test to detect rapidly language disorders. To evaluate the effectiveness of these tests, we have compared them to the form P (NEEL-P) tests for the examination of language in 6 children with a 22q11 microdeletion. MATERIALS AND METHOD: 6 children aged from 4 years and 4 months to 5 years and 4 months, 4 boys and 2 girls have been tested. These tests have been performed in two sessions lasting between 1 and 1 1/2 hour. RESULTS: They are consistent in both tests. ERTL has identified all the children with a disorder. CONCLUSION: These fast tests should be used more often to detect children requiring additional and more complex language and neuropsychological evaluations.
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DiGeorge Syndrome/genetics , Language Disorders/genetics , Sequence Deletion , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Mass Screening/standardsABSTRACT
From 1991 until 1998, 55 three to twelve year-old patients underwent a velopharyngoplasty to correct velopharyngeal insufficiency. They had indeed severe hypernasality with or without gross reflux of food matter into the nasal cavities or behavioural disturbances. Eighty-two percent had a closed cleft palate. Forty percent presented with mental retardation, heart diseases or multiple syndromal defects. They all had had a previous speech therapy for a long (months) or a very long (years) period of time. In the post operative period, hypernasality disappeared totally or partially in eighty-five percent; reflux disappeared in almost all cases. Middle ear pathologies were not more frequent and were also less severe. Behavioral disturbances associated with a severe speech defect were also less pronounced.
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Palate, Soft/surgery , Pharynx/surgery , Velopharyngeal Insufficiency/surgery , Age Factors , Child , Child Behavior Disorders/etiology , Child, Preschool , Cleft Palate/surgery , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Intellectual Disability/diagnosis , Polysomnography , Postoperative Complications , Reoperation , Speech Therapy , Time Factors , Treatment Outcome , Velopharyngeal Insufficiency/complicationsABSTRACT
We describe our experience with monocanal cochlear implants, which began in 1984 with a view to rehabilitation in severe bilateral deafness. This article describes two types of implant (Prelco and MSR-UCL), criteria of patient selection, surgical aspects pre- and postoperative evaluation setting by group, re-education aspects, and evolution test with quantitative values.