title: Comorbidity in specific language disorders and early feeding disorders: mother-child interactive patterns.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This empirical study has its main object in highlighting the role of mother-child interactive experiences in the development of affective and communicative exchanges in infancy.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study analyzed four groups of mother-child couples with children who presented a Specific Language Disorder (SLD) the first, a Feeding Disorder (FD) the second, the third an association of SLD and FD, and a fourth non clinical group. Diagnostic assessments were done through: a specific linguistic protocol, the Italian version of the Feeding Scale-Observational Scale for Mother-Infant Interactions during Feeding, specific psychodiagnostic questionnaires for mothers and children.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A distortion in the communication area can significantly weigh upon the quality of infant-caregiver relationship: our data on mothers of children with a SLD/FD comorbidity confirm this finding by describing their children as prone to isolation and withdrawal, thus directing their efforts and worries to a specifically communicative and relational factor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological, Psychiatric and Rehabilitative Sciences for Childhood and Adolescence, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy. anna.fabrizi@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fabrizi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lucarelli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Patruno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers; D015999:Multivariate Analysis