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Growth Patterns Among Infants With Language Deficits: A Case-Control Study

Hannah Khoushy Child Development Centre, Bnai Zion Medical Centre, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, davidom{at}netvision.net.il

Odaya Bennet, MD

Hannah Khoushy Child Development Centre, Bnai Zion Medical Centre, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Michael Jaffe, MBChB

Hannah Khoushy Child Development Centre, Bnai Zion Medical Centre, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Emanuel Tirosh, MD

Hannah Khoushy Child Development Centre, Bnai Zion Medical Centre, The Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine

Ayala Cohen, PhD

Faculty of Industrial Engineering, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

We compared growth parameters in infants with language delay to those in children with global delay and to typical controls. Thirty infants with expressive language delay and 36 with combined expressive and receptive language delay were compared with 27 infants with general development delay and with 124 controls. Data on weight, height, head circumference, and feeding behavior were obtained from birth up to age 78 weeks, and converted to percentiles. Medical and sociodemographic data were also evaluated. The weight curves in the combined expressive and receptive language delay group were significantly lower than in the comparison groups, but no cases of failure to thrive were noted. Height and head circumference curves in the combined expressive and receptive language delay group were also lower than in the typical controls. Infants with combined expressive and receptive language delay were lighter and shorter than controls. However, none of the parameters were more than two standard deviations below the mean. It is possible that this finding is of constitutional origin. (J Child Neurol 2000;15:440-444).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 15, No. 7, 440-444 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500703


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