Silver-Russell syndrome: clinical, neurodevelopmental and communication characteristics: clinical case studies.
Eduarda Hanna Porto Ribeiro, Michele Dias Hayssi Haduo, Camila da Costa Ribeiro and 1 others
PMID 34705922WHAT IT FOUND
Three young boys with Silver-Russell syndrome had ongoing feeding and oral motor concerns, lower motor and expressive language performance than expected, and better understanding than speech output.
Key findings
01All cases had feeding difficulties recorded in the clinical characteristics chart.
02Communication observation and developmental screening showed performance below age expectations in all participants.
03Auditory expressive performance was below age expectations for all participants, while auditory receptive performance was adequate for P1 and P2.
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What it does not show
Only three male children were described, so the findings cannot show how common these patterns are or whether treatment helps. The assessments were cross-sectional, and the paper says the children were not followed up for development. The children had been seen by speech therapy only in the first months of life, so later needs may not be captured. The study used descriptive analysis of medical records, not a treatment trial.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read these three cases as proof that speech therapy improves Silver-Russell syndrome. The paper describes records and cross-sectional assessments, and it did not test an intervention.