Communication disorders

Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, is an impairment in a person's ability to comprehend or formulate language because of dysfunction in specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in developed countries. Aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, epilepsy, autoimmune neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis, infection of the brain, or neurodegenerative diseases like dementias.

group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood

genetic brain disorder

form of hearing disorder

Dysarthria is a speech sound disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor–speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes. Those affected lack sufficient control of the muscles used for speech to prounounce words clearly. Dysarthria is unrelated to problems with understanding language (that is, dysphasia or aphasia), although a person can have both. Any of the speech subsystems (respiration, phonation, resonance, prosody, and articulation) can be affected, leading to impairments in intelligibility, audibility, naturalness, and efficiency o

range of neurodevelopmental conditions

Amusia is a musical disorder that appears mainly as a defect in processing pitch but also encompasses musical memory and recognition. Two main classifications of amusia exist: acquired amusia, which occurs as a result of brain damage, and congenital amusia, which results from a music-processing anomaly present since birth.

Agrammatism is a characteristic of non-fluent aphasia. Individuals with agrammatism present with speech that is characterized by containing mainly content words, with a lack of function words. For example, when asked to describe a picture of children playing in the park, the affected individual responds with, "trees..children..run." People with agrammatism may have telegraphic speech, a unique speech pattern with simplified formation of sentences (in which many or all function words are omitted), akin to that found in telegraph messages. Deficits in agrammaticism are often language-specific, h

range of neurodevelopmental conditions

neurodevelopmental disorder that affects how the brain processes sounds

former developmental disorder, since DSM-V replaced by Autism Spectrum Condition, type 2-3, with, or without, intellectual development disorder

child demonstrating speech ability later than is average

set of symbols augmenting the International Phonetic Alphabet for transcribing disordered speech

Cluttering is a speech and communication disorder characterized by a rapid rate of speech, erratic rhythm, and poor syntax or grammar, making speech difficult to understand.

impairment affecting speech, language, or hearing that hinders the ability to effectively communicate

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neurodevelopmental condition

language disorder in which a child fails to develop language normally

language abilities below the expected level for a given age

neurodevelopmental condition

fonoaudiologia

neurodevelopmental condition

seemingly tangential discussion that returns to the point

speech sound disorder

type of ataxic dysarthria in which spoken words are broken up into separate syllables

thought disorder, involves replying to a question in an oblique, irrelevant or tangential manner

medical condition

tendency to speak rapidly and frenziedly, as if motivated by an urgency not apparent to the listener