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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Developmental Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1284950

Examination Of Language, Cognitive and Mathematical Skills In Childhood Endocrine Diseases

Provisionally accepted
Ebrar Çavuşoğlu Ebrar Çavuşoğlu Merve Savaş Merve Savaş *Emine Dilek Emine Dilek Yusuf Elgörmüş Yusuf Elgörmüş Senanur Kahraman Beğen Senanur Kahraman Beğen
  • İstanbul Atlas University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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    Children diagnosed with endocrine disorders may not show typical development and may have difficulties in language, academic and cognitive skills along with social-emotional problems. In this study, children with endocrine disorders were compared with their normally developing peers in terms of language, cognition, mathematical skills and psychosocial characteristics. The aim of this study was to identify possible therapeutic needs in the areas of language, cognition and mathematical skills of children with endocrine disorders who experience school failure. In this way, early evaluation of speech and language disorders and planning of intervention will be possible. 15 children diagnosed with endocrine disorders (8 female, 7 male; mean age: 10, SD: 2) and 15 children with normal development (8 female, 7 male; mean age: 10, SD: 2) participated in the study.The participants were administered the Test of Language Development-Primary: Fourth Edition Turkish Revision (TOLDP-4:T T), Turkish Nonword Repetition Test (TNRT), The Turkish Multilinguals Sentence Repetition Test (LITMUS-TR), Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-R), Problem Solving Test (PST), The Revised Child Anxiety And Depression Scale-Child Version (RCADS-CV), Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI) and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)were applied. The data obtained from the study show that children with endocrine disease show lower performance in language, cognition and mathematical skills compared to their healthy peers, while they do not differ in terms of social emotional status assessed by psychological scales.

    Keywords: Childhood endocrinologic disease, Language, Cognition, Mathematical Performance. Subject classification codes: Academic Risk, Disadvantaged, school performance

    Received: 05 Sep 2023; Accepted: 04 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Çavuşoğlu, Savaş, Dilek, Elgörmüş and Kahraman Beğen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Merve Savaş, İstanbul Atlas University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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