Nature of communication disorders in children of Upper Egypt

ABSTRACT

This study represented an alternative way of gathering information for sensitizing health professionals about th nature of communication disorders. In turn, this might be useful in planning and development of rehabilitation services for a communicatively handicapped child. Data were collected from the hospital records of the proportion of children with communication disorders. For each child, the demographic characteristics, medical antecedents, cause and diagnosis of communicative disability were collected. The results were analyzed in the context of the possibility of determination of the factors conductive to the occurrence of communication disorders and the factors which should contribute to future improvement of services for the communicatively handicapped child