Features of Reproductive and Productive Speech of Adolescents with Congenital Heart Disease after Surgery and Conditionally Healthy Peers: Linguocognitive Aspect

Linguistic and cognitive disorders in children with cardiovascular diseases or operated for congenital heart disease are a relevant research topic. Such studies contribute to developing new rehabilitation programs, especially when they are conducted against conditionally healthy peers. This research featured the linguistic aspect of the productive and reproductive speech of teenagers operated for congenital heart disease and their healthy peers. The reproductive test involved 31 patients aged 13-15 years who had undergone cardiopulmonary bypass surgery for congenital heart disease at the Research Institute of Complex Problems of Cardiovascular Diseases, Kemerovo, and 35 conditionally healthy middle school students of the same age. The productive test involved 28 patients and 26 healthy peers. In line with T.A. Fotekova and T.V. Ahutina’s diagnostic method, the children hat to retell a 54-word story and give a spontaneous speech about their home town. In the reproductive speech test, the patients demonstrated an inability to literally reproduce text, which was significantly compensated by paraphrasing skills and led to an abundance of unique word forms, compared to the healthy teenagers. In the productive speech test, the patients often had problems generating utterances, which were often presented as incomplete sentences. However, we could not detect a serious degree agrammatism, which would manifest itself in the inability to coordinate parts of speech.