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What Causes Lack Of Speech And Understanding Capability From Birth?

My sister is 14 years old. She is good looking as normal people are , she is unable to speak and understand by birth. She is calm and sweet not violent at all.
we have consulted doctors all over India to our best. She has gone through several tests like MRI,Test for Hearing,speaking everything but the reports were all
normal. She can hear she can understand a few things but not all.she does all her work herself. Bathing,combing,eating etc more systematically than normal people.
Doctors who has done her throat checkup say that she is not mute as well. But they are not able to understand whats wrong.
She is a great cause of worry for my mother. Kindly do the needful. I'll be very thankful
Tue, 23 Dec 2014
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Thanks for your query on HCM.
From your history it seems your sister is suffering from "Specific Language Impairment (SLI)"
It is developmental language disorder in which child other developmental domain is normal but language development is poor in both understanding and expression.
Causes of this disorder are multi factorial and include several gene and environmental factors interacting.
Its treatment required speech therapy
Hope this information will help.
For more queries you may contact me at this site.
Regards-
Dr Deepak Vaishnav
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What Causes Lack Of Speech And Understanding Capability From Birth?

Thanks for your query on HCM. From your history it seems your sister is suffering from Specific Language Impairment (SLI) It is developmental language disorder in which child other developmental domain is normal but language development is poor in both understanding and expression. Causes of this disorder are multi factorial and include several gene and environmental factors interacting. Its treatment required speech therapy Hope this information will help. For more queries you may contact me at this site. Regards- Dr Deepak Vaishnav