Baker L, Cantwell D P
University of California, Los Angeles.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1987 Dec;17(4):499-510. doi: 10.1007/BF01486966.
This paper reports on the correlates of psychiatric illness in children with speech and language disorders. Of 600 children selected from a community speech clinic, 50% were found to have diagnosable psychiatric disorders according to DSM-III criteria. These "psychiatrically ill" children were compared to the "psychiatrically well" children in the sample on a variety of developmental, socioeconomic, medical, and psychosocial factors. Although some differences were found between the well and ill children in other factors, the majority of the differences, and the most highly significant differences, were found in areas of linguistic functioning. It is hypothesized that this finding may be relevant not only to understanding the association between linguistic and psychiatric functioning but also to predicting the outcome and planning treatment for childhood speech and language disorders.
本文报告了患有言语和语言障碍儿童的精神疾病相关因素。从一家社区言语诊所挑选的600名儿童中，根据《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版（DSM-III）标准，有50%被发现患有可诊断的精神疾病。将这些“患有精神疾病”的儿童与样本中“精神健康”的儿童在各种发育、社会经济、医学和心理社会因素方面进行了比较。尽管在其他因素方面，健康儿童和患病儿童之间存在一些差异，但大多数差异以及最显著的差异都出现在语言功能领域。据推测，这一发现可能不仅与理解语言功能和精神功能之间的关联有关，还与预测儿童言语和语言障碍的结果以及规划治疗方案有关。
