García GRJ

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ABSTRACT

Objective: Describe the main speech disorders found among children with epilepsy and their most common causes.
Methods: The databases PubMed, SciELO and EBSCO were used to search for reference papers, mainly publications from the last five years (2013 to 2018) written in Spanish, English or French. Attention was paid to documents containing original information.
Results: Among people with epilepsy, the so-called "specific speech disorders" are the most commonly diagnosed. These are mainly due to epilepsy itself, abnormal brain electrical activity, the origin of epilepsy and the treatment. On occasion, other dysfunctions are added which may also occur in people without epilepsy, among them psycholinguistic alterations or damage to speech organs (hearing and speaking).
Conclusions: Patients with epilepsy have a high risk of presenting speech difficulties. Organization of the diagnostic method is crucial to define the cause, modify the prognosis and timely determine whether a difficulty is a specific speech disorder. The main complementary tests to be indicated are audiometry, brain-stem auditoryevoked potentials, electroencephalography, psychological evaluation and brain imaging.