No subject

abnormal sleep EEG.  Children with it characteristically have "normal" 
language development prior to the onset of siezures, at which time their 
language development stops.  Apparantly there are drugs (steroids?) that
can boost the development of language.

A parent of a patient gave me this information, but I have thus far not 
followed it up.  Please let me know if you have further details.

Wendy Jones
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
jones at crl.ucsd.edu