ReviewSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2017
Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins.
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- Exploring Signed Literacy in Elementary Deaf Students Through Evidence-Based Instructional Methods.Sign language studies · 2024Article
- Impoverished language in early childhood affects the development of complex sentence structure.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Exploring spirituality and quality of life in individuals who are deaf and have intellectual disabilities.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Family ASL: An Early Start to Equitable Education for Deaf Children.Topics in early childhood special education · 2023Article
- Deaf and hard-of-hearing children and adolescents' mental health, Quality of Life and communication.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThere is a need to better understand the epidemiological relationship between language development and psychiatric symptomatology. Language development can be particularly impacted by social factors-as seen in the developmental choices made for deaf children, which can create language deprivation. A possible mental health syndrome may be present in deaf patients with severe language deprivation.
methodsElectronic databases were searched to identify publications focusing on language development and mental health in the deaf population. Screening of relevant publications narrowed the search results to 35 publications.
resultsAlthough there is very limited empirical evidence, there appears to be suggestions of a mental health syndrome by clinicians working with deaf patients. Possible features include language dysfluency, fund of knowledge deficits, and disruptions in thinking, mood, and/or behavior.
conclusionThe clinical specialty of deaf mental health appears to be struggling with a clinically observed phenomenon that has yet to be empirically investigated and defined within the DSM. Descriptions of patients within the clinical setting suggest a language deprivation syndrome. Language development experiences have an epidemiological relationship with psychiatric outcomes in deaf people. This requires more empirical attention and has implications for other populations with behavioral health disparities as well.
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