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Volume 24, Issue 4
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Chieko Kojima, Kenji Yokochi, Masato Okada1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 225-234
Published: October 25, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe subject was a 9-year-old boy with an unusual form of speech delay. There were four deaf and dumb relatives. His gestational and birth histories were unremarkable. His gross motor development was not retarded, and he walked at 1 year old. In early infancy, he could not understand spoken language, and he spoke no meaningful words. He had autistic tendency and behavioral problems. He was regarded to have severe mental retardation. Numbers and letters (Hiragana) were understood at four to five years old. By five years old, he understood the spoken language, and his autistic tendency had disappeared. On his first visit to our hospital, oral apraxia and verbal apraxia were recognized, and speech therapy was initated. He was able to speak meaningful words at five years old, and thereafter the number of his spoken words increased. At eight years old, his intelligence quotient was IQ 104. At present, he has no behavioral disorder, but has mild oral apraxia, verbal apraxia, disturbance of prosody and grammatical error.View full abstractDownload PDF (1314K) -
Takashi Kamei, Ichiro Tsukuda1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 235-247
Published: October 25, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSWe proposed the revised version of the Token Test as means of revealing linguistic and non-linguistic processing disorders of auditory comprehension in aphasics. The purpose of the modification was to assess information-processing abilities which rely primarily on the manupilation of linguistic rules.
We eliminated eight typical command patterns from the original version (DeRenzi & Vignolo, 1962), and decided to balance qualitation and quantitation of item and unit in the scoring system. The Revised Token Test was administered to 43 aphasic patients and the results were summarized as follows:
(1) In Part I-IV, the number of errors were reflected by attentional factors or sequencing span.
(2) In Part V-VIII, the errors showed a unsimilar pattern and grammatical aspects such as“left and right preposition”and“temporal order of events”were relatively sensitive to aphasic deficits.
(3) The Test performance was not able to discriminate among aphasic groups.View full abstractDownload PDF (1592K) -
Longitudinal StudyTomohiko Ito1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 248-256
Published: October 25, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTo investigate the relationship between speech disfluency in childhood and language acquisition, various types of disfluency were examined longitudinally in nine children from the age of 3 to 6 years. Their conversational utterances in play situation were taperecorded and analyzed. The major findings were as follows:
1) There were many children whose disfluency was the highest at age 3 or 4 and lessened afterwards (8 children out of 9) .
2) The children using longer sentences and the greater number of complicated sentences showed the higher frequency of disfluency at age 3 and 4 (especially at age 3), but not at age 6.
3) There were eight children out of nine whose usage of longer sentences and complicated sentences increased from 4 to 6 years old. Meanwhile, there were seven of these whose frequency of disfluency tended to decrease from 4 to 6 years old.
4) The reason for the close relationship between speech disfluency and language acquisition in 3 or 4-year-olds and not in 5 or 6-year-olds was discussed, and the similarities and differences between normal childhood disfluency and the initial stage of stuttering were also considered.View full abstractDownload PDF (959K) -
—The Relationship between Lesion Sites and the Test Scores—Genkichi Totsuka, Yoko Fukusako, Sumiko Sasanuma1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 257-269
Published: October 25, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: January 31, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS69 patients with aphasia caused by left cerebral infarction were examined by Token Test of Differential Diagnosis for Aphasia. All cases were also examined by computed tomography (CT) in order to find the locus and extent of the cerebral damage. The major results obtained from the statistical analysis included the following:
1) The temporal lobe was shown to be involved in performing most of the 56 subjects.
2) The frontal lobe was shown to be closely related to such subjects that are supposed to be evaluate speech production processes, e. g., “degultition”, “movement of the soft palate”, “repetition of one-syllable words”, “phonemic errors”and“fluency”. The parietal-frontal lobes, on the other hand, appeared to be closely related to“repetition of sentences”.
3) The subjects with same input and output modalities but with different levels of language processing seemd to require participation of different areas of the brain. For instance, the subtest for “auditory recognition of the spoken words” showed a close relationship to the temporal lobe and the anterior part of the frontal lobe, while “auditory comprehension of spoken sentences” was closely related to the temporal lobe and the anterior part of the occipital lobe.
4) On the other hand, involvement of different areas of the brain was not indicated for some subtests in which input and output modalities and/or levels of language processing are clearly different, e. g., “reading kanji” and “reading kana”.
Implications for the findings and suggestion for further study were discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (1847K) -
[in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japane ...1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 270-274
Published: October 25, 1983
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[in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japane ...1983 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 275-276
Published: October 25, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: June 22, 2010
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