Language Disorders Among Non-Disabled Children After Perinatal Asphyxia: A Cross Sectional Descriptive Study Using Neurolinguistic Approach

Fahmida Ferdous; Dionéia Motta Monte-Serrat; Shahryar Nabi; MdFaruq Alam; Jinat Imtiaz Ali; Syed Shahrier Rahman

doi:10.1016/j.rcpeng.2023.01.001

Language Disorders Among Non-Disabled Children After Perinatal Asphyxia: A Cross Sectional Descriptive Study Using Neurolinguistic Approach

Rev Colomb Psiquiatr (Engl Ed). 2024 Jul-Sep;53(3):238-245. doi: 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2023.01.001.

[Article in English, Spanish]

Authors

Fahmida Ferdous¹, Dionéia Motta Monte-Serrat², Shahryar Nabi³, MdFaruq Alam⁴, Jinat Imtiaz Ali⁵, Syed Shahrier Rahman⁶

Affiliations

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Z H Sikder Women's Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; PhD Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Collaborating Researcher at Computation and Mathematics Department of FFCLRP-USP, Brazil; Assistant Ph.D. Professor at University of Ribeirao Preto, UNAERP, Brazil; Collaborating Researcher Institute of Languages Study, IEL-UNICAMP, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Dean Faculty of Medicine, University of Dhaka and Associate Professor Radiology and Imaging, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ Professor and Director Child and Adolescent Family Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Professor and Director, International Institute of Mother Languages, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁶ Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

PMID: 39521479
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcpeng.2023.01.001

Abstract

Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy after perinatal asphyxia causes neurolinguistic disturbances in children without disabilities. Poor academic performance appears as a long-term result. Language intervention is sought to reduce harmful effects on children. The aim of this study is showing the relationship between clinical conditions of hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy (HIE) and language disorders in children without disabilities. This cross-sectional study with a neurolinguistic approach was carried out in patients with perinatal asphyxia during childbirth, at the ZH Sikder Women's Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh. Respondents between 4 and 12 years, 76% underwent cranial computed tomography (CT); 82% underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); and 70% underwent electroencephalogram (EEG). Among them were found positive results for neonatal hypoxia ischemic encephalopathy (EHI). These results are related to the following language disorders: reception/perception disorder (64%), sociolinguistic disorders (84%); metalinguistic competence disorder (66%); 86% of children had poor peer relationships and 72% had reading and writing disorders. Concluding, school-age children after perinatal asphyxia who developed Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) had language disorders and poor school performance. There are still challenges to be overcome, as this is the first neurolinguistic approach in Bangladesh. More large-scale studies are needed.

Keywords: Asfixia perinatal; Bangladesh; Language disorders; Neurolinguistics; Neurolingüística; Perinatal asphyxia; Poor academic performance; Rendimiento académico deficiente; Trastornos del lenguaje.

MeSH terms

Academic Performance
Asphyxia Neonatorum* / complications
Bangladesh / epidemiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Electroencephalography
Female
Humans
Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain* / etiology
Infant, Newborn
Language Disorders* / etiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Tomography, X-Ray Computed