title: Oral language disorders and enuresis in children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Co-occurrence of oral language disorders and enuresis in children.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To identify and analyze the relationship between instances of oral language disorders and enuresis in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical, quantitative and qualitative study, with a descriptive/interpretative outline, presented through two distinct situations. "Situation 1" refers to a group of 120 children between 3:0 and 10:0 years old, independently of gender and age, from a philanthropic Institution in Greater São Paulo. "Situation 2" refers specifically to the evaluation of children who have oral language disorders and enuresis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results indicated that enuretic children present a higher percentage of oral language disorders when compared to non-enuretic children, especially phonological disorders and talking very little. These results support the studies on co-occurrence of enuresis and oral language disorders, presented in papers that attribute a bio-psychic etiology to this co-morbidity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results indicated a relationship between enuresis and oral language disorders. Considering the interactions among language, body and psyche, it is suggested that speech therapists, when dealing with oral language disorders in children, also investigate the acquisition of their bladder sphincter control, in a bio-psychical approach.
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. thel29@attglobal.net
authors.forename: Thelma Kilinsky
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Birenbaum
authors.forename: Maria Claudia
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cunha
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D004775:Enuresis / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires