Over the last years, the need of an inter/multidisciplinary framework has been advanced within clinical contexts that might integrally explain language alterations. This need is even more relevant when diagnostic categories that have been proposed describe mostly the damage, but they do not explain underlying causes. Thus, the aims of this work are: (1) identifying the altered neurophysiological and neuropsychological factors, from a Lurian neuropsychology perspective, in a child with language deficits and, (2) carry out a linguistic analysis of phonological errors to determine the relation between both facts A single-case study was implemented, and qualitative analysis was conducted to describe the child's phonological deficits. Results showed that the child had a wide range of phonological alterations: assimilation, substitution, omission, and insertion, all of them related with a deficit in kinesthetic analysis and synthesis mechanism, and sequential organization of movements and actions. These findings suggest that there is a relation between altered neuropsychological factors and type of phonological error observed. We propose that language deficits can be explained better if we consider a neuropsychologic and linguistic approaches. Finally, if a linguistic approach is including in the speech pathology clinical context, we can expect explain the observed phenomenon in a more integral way.
Keywords:
phonology, language disorder, clinic linguistic, EEG, neuropsychology
Casadiego, A., Guillén, J., Solovieva, Y., & Regina, M. (2019). Clinical linguistic analysis of phonological alterations in children: A case study. Revista Chilena De Fonoaudiología, 18(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4692.2019.55322
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