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- Title
Prelingual Auditory Verbal Agnosia, A Rare Condition.
- Authors
Necula, Violeta; Stamate, Cristina Mirela; Luchoo, Krishna; Cosgarea, Marcel
- Abstract
Auditory agnosia, agnosia for speech is a rare condition, caused mostly by stroke, in adults, while in children it is often a sequel of herpes simplex encephalitis or is associated with epilepsy, in Landau-Kleffner syndrome. This article presents a rare case of verbal auditory agnosia as a result of meningoencephalitis, caused probably by herpes simplex virus. The patient's developed encephalitis at the age of 1 year and 4 months. After her recovery, the family noticed the absence of language development. She was initially diagnosed with profound hearing loss, and the hearing aids did not help her. The speech therapy developed her lip-reading skills with a hard-to-understand pronunciation. Later, audiometry showed a nearly normal peripheral auditory system and magnetic resonance imaging revealed the characteristic brain lesions in both the temporal lobes, explaining the patient's evolution. Assessment of children with delayed speech development must consider the central hearing disorders as a differential diagnosis.
- Subjects
AGNOSIA; ENCEPHALITIS; HERPESVIRUS diseases; DEAFNESS; HEARING disorder diagnosis
- Publication
Indian Journal of Otology, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
0971-7749
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0971-7749.199499