Abstract
A battery of linguistic and nonlinguistic examinations was given to four patients five to thirteen years after the onset, to determine the course and outcome of acquired aphasia in children. The results of these examinations were correlated with those of the initial evaluation and subsequent clinical course as well as the lesion information obtained by CT scan.
The findings were in accord with early onset of left hemisphere dominance for linguistic functions, and suggested that the degree and time course of lateralization and/or intrahemispheric differentiation of functions might be variable for different components of the linguistic structure.
Since all the patients examined did exhibit linguistic impairment, and some even showed maladjustment to school life, the necessity for the long range clinical intervention by speech pathologist was emphasized.
