[Language delay in children with chronic suppurative otitis media].
The chronic serous otitis media is a well known cause of fluctuant moderated conduction deafness in childhood but not well studied in Castillian speaking areas, as a cause of alterations in the acquisition of language. In the present study we evaluate the chronic serous otitis media as a cause of alterations in the development of the language in childhood. We studied the semantic development level in a group of 18 four years old children affected of chronic serous otitis media of more than one year evolution. The incidence of alterations was of 27.7%. We discuss the results obtained and we propose a management for this pathology.
Biurrún Unzué
Oscar
O
Unidad de Foniatría, Logopedia y Audiología, Clínica Tres Torres, Barcelona.
Biurrún Unzué
Ana
A
Villacorta Labairu
Begoña
B
Andrade Arriaga
Marcela
M
D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D010035:Otitis Media, Suppurative / Q000150:complications*