ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe the assessment and intervention of a child diagnosed with Landau-Kleffner syndrome, using a neuropsychoanalytic approach, combined with neurorehabilitation treatment. It discusses the psychodynamic Lacanian treatment including initial interviews and the different phases of the treatment, the neuropsychological assessment and the neurorehabilitation treatment, along with the psychodynamic hypotheses that guide the entire intervention. The chapter highlights the case presented on the importance of language in two main aspects: language as a way to regulate behaviour and language considered as a symbolic place that the child has in the discourse and the thoughts of his parents. Vygotsky’s studies have indicated how language could directly regulate cognition, emotion and behavior in children. Along the development, the child acquires, through the process of internalization, an inner speech that can be defined as “the subjective experience of language in the absence of overt and audible articulation”.
