Motor alalia occurs due to a wide variety of reasons. Most often, the disease is caused by violations of the prenatal period of development, difficult childbirth, diseases or injuries in early childhood. Motor
Alalia can be caused by diseases such as encephalitis and meningitis.
The delay in the development of speech can be caused by a general delay in the mental and mental development of the child, in which the intellect suffers. In this regard, the child is not able to correlate certain phenomena with their names, analyze and use words to explain the phenomena. Some children may have difficulty contacting with others; such children live in their inner world. Doctors call this condition autism. In this case, the children start talking late, as they are not looking for contacts with other people. Motor alalia can combine several factors at once. Sensomotor alalia can be diagnosed in the first months after the birth of a child, however, more often it goes unnoticed. Unlike healthy children, such a child babbles a little, and babble is often monotonous.
As a rule, severe violations are observed only in the second year of life, but in most cases, parents and others are prone to complacency. It is believed that often children begin to speak after two years, and
boys begin to talk later than girls. In some cases, motor
Alalia is so pronounced that the child babbles up to 5 years.
The disease can be diagnosed if the child is significantly behind his peers, not only in pronunciation function. The disease can be expressed in a delay in the formation of motor skills, which is expressed in clumsiness, inability to wash hands, eat with a spoon, etc. A child suffering from motor alalia, who has already mastered everyday speech, has difficulties in repeating speech turns. The lack of words can be stored for a long time, often only the stressed syllable is pronounced. In his speech, a child with motor alalia does not follow grammatical rules; they do not use conjunctions and prepositions; therefore, the construction of phrases looks unusual. A child with motor alalia is distinguished from an infant with mental retardation by the inability to use familiar words. Speech by a person with mental retardation may be poor, but he uses words that he understands and can, if necessary, repeat them.
A feature of the behavior of children suffering from alalia is motor anxiety, which is especially pronounced up to five years, but can continue until school age. In other cases, children, on the contrary, are inactive, inhibited, and constrained in their movements; the development of speech is most affected. A feature of the behavior of children with alalia is rapid exhaustion, instability of attention, fatigue. In some cases, these symptoms are combined with frequent changes in mood, tearfulness, impaired appetite and sleep and wakefulness.
Motor alalia treatment
The prognosis for overcoming the disease is favorable, but only if targeted studies are conducted with the child. The sooner work begins on the development of speech, the better the results. A complication of alalia is often stuttering, that is, a violation of the smoothness of speech. Successful treatment of a child suffering from motor alalia depends entirely on the conditions created.
parents in the family. Serious help in the treatment of the disease can be provided by speech therapists, neuropathologists and defectologists. In some cases, a child in preschool age manages to advance so much in speech that he goes to a regular school, even despite difficulties in learning. Other children are encouraged to attend a speech school.