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Language profiles in children with concussion.

Melissa D Stockbridge¹, Rochelle S Newman¹, Andrea Zukowski²

¹Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.

|February 14, 2020

Summary

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Children with recent concussions struggle with specific language tasks, including category identification and grammaticality judgments. These findings aid in developing better concussion screening tools for pediatric language deficits.

Keywords:

Concussion language pediatric

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Concussion can impact cognitive and linguistic functions in children.
Existing screening tools may not fully capture subtle language deficits post-concussion.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify specific language and cognitive-linguistic tasks sensitive to concussion in children.
To inform the development of a screening tool for pediatric concussion.

Main Methods:

Assessed 22 elementary school-aged children with recent concussions and age-matched controls.
Utilized novel language tasks (category identification, grammaticality, word recognition) and cognitive assessments.
Included auditory attention and Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices.

Main Results:

Children with concussion performed significantly worse on category identification, grammaticality, and word recognition tasks.
These linguistic tasks improved concussion status prediction beyond symptom scores.
Observed moderate effect sizes for all significant findings.

Conclusions:

Targeted linguistic tasks, especially those assessing semantic/syntactic access and verbal working memory, are crucial for concussion assessment.
Further research can lead to brief language assessments for pediatric concussion.
These assessments can enhance existing concussion detection methods.