Question
A child experienced sudden aphasia accompanied by tongue tremor, which has occurred twice, each lasting about a minute. No treatment has been initiated, and the cause is unclear. What is the cause of this condition, and what treatment methods can help solve this problem?
Answer
For children with complete aphasia, rehabilitation training should begin within a week after the condition stabilizes. Functional rehabilitation training includes phonetic training, phrase training, conversation training, reading training, repetition sentence training, text recognition, naming objects, executing commands, and learning to exchange pictures and real objects. For children with complete aphasia, rehabilitation training should start with learning to produce sounds, such as making the “ah” sound or blowing a whistle to guide the production of sounds. Then teach them common single words such as “eat,” “drink,” “good,” and “go.” Provide cards with words on them for them to recognize. Gradually teach double-tone words, phrases, sentences, and longer sentences. During training, responses are combined with visual stimulation, such as combining the word “eat” with food or using picture-based reading methods to combine what is said with what is seen. For children with incomplete motor aphasia who can speak many words, phrases, or sentences with difficulty or slowness and often accompanied by vocabulary poverty and repetition of words, they need patient teaching and repeated recitation of stories to learn flexibility and train the flexible use of language skills. Rehabilitation for children with sensory aphasia is more challenging than for those with motor aphasia. They can be flexible in their use of language.