Childhood Disorder: Expressive Learning Disorder

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Expressive Learning Disorder-Sariah
Children with expressive language disorders may have challenges socializing with other youngsters and may cause behavioral issues. My child when she or he was young had expressive language disorder, and he or she had some difficulties with social settings but never had a behavioral issue. As he or she grew, she or he improved and now he or she has language impairment (anonymous, personal communication, April 22, 2014). According to the University of Maryland Medical Center (2014) indicates, “Because of their language problems, these children may have difficulty in social settings. At times, language disorders may be part of the cause of severe behavioral problems” (para. 10). In this paper, I will recount about the video clip of Sariah (YouTube, 2009) and other factors concerning expressive speech disorder.
Identification
I viewed a video clip in YouTube about a 10 year old girl named Sariah (YouTube, 2009). Sariah has a language disorder called expressive language disorder (ELD). Sariah was having difficulties in verbalizing what she recalled from a story. She was not using full sentences when she spoke and seemed unable to express her thoughts about the film that she had seen. Sariah seemed anxious while she attempted to get the words to communicate what she wanted to articulate.
Sariah (YouTube, 2009) age ten remembers word poorly and produces sentences that are shorter or less complicated than is developmentally suitable. Sariah understands the material she is making an attempt to communicate. She cannot produce the proper sentences to verbalize her thoughts. Sariah has a similar ability to comprehend speech as her peers and has a similar level of intelligence. Sariah has issues in e...

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Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. (2014). Expressive language disorder. Retrieved from http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Expressive-language-disorder.html#b Giddan, J. J., Milling, L., & Campbell, N. B. (1996). Unrecognized language and speech deficits in preadolescent psychiatric inpatients. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 66(1), 85-92. doi:10.1037/h0080158
University of Maryland Medical Center. (2014). Language disorder - children. Retrieved from http://umm.edu/health/medical/ency/articles/language-disorder-children YouTube. (2009). Expressive Language Disorder - Sariah age 10. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRNeDtme0g

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