acquired epilepsy aphasia
acquired aphasia with epilepsy
Landau-Kleffner syndrome

This procedure has been successful in an unusual type of epilepsy called Landau-Kleffner syndrome, at least for a limited time.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome is an epileptic condition that results in the inability to communicate either with speech or by writing (aphasia).

In a study of 77 cases of Landau-Kleffner syndrome, 6 were found to have this type of aphasia.

It was within his specialty of stroke and movement disorders that he gained eponymous recognition for the Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

His name became well known for a controversial treatment for a disease affecting children under the age of five and causing acquired aphasia (Landau-Kleffner syndrome).

Landau-Kleffner syndrome (after William Landau)

An exception is acquired epileptic aphasia or Landau-Kleffner syndrome, where a child's development regresses, with language comprehension severely affected.

In childhood, auditory verbal agnosia can also be caused by Landau-Kleffner syndrome, also called acquired epileptic aphasia.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome is another epilepsy which, because of its variety of EEG distributions, falls uneasily in clear categories.

Every chess piece, tactic, and/or strategy in a chess game represents an aspect of oneself as shown in a case involving a boy with Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

Other disorders that involve regression are total blindness from birth, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome and Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

A differential diagnosis for ASD at this stage might also consider mental retardation, hearing impairment, and a specific language impairment such as Landau-Kleffner syndrome.

Evan's disorder began with seizures and his improvement occurred after the seizures were treated, symptoms experts have noted are more consistent with Landau-Kleffner syndrome, often misdiagnosed as autism.

Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS), also called infantile acquired aphasia, acquired epileptic aphasia or aphasia with convulsive disorder, is a rare, childhood neurological syndrome.

It typically occurs as a symptom of Landau-Kleffner syndrome, in which case a diagnosis of SLI would not be appropriate, as there is a known neurological origin of the language difficulties.

The disorder should be differentiated from several other conditions, especially centrotemporal spikes without seizures, centrotemporal spikes with local brain pathology, central spikes in Rett syndrome and fragile X syndrome, malignant rolandic epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy and Landau-Kleffner syndrome.