Communication Impairments in Children

Significant language impairment without any other developmental difficulty.

• Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

• Articulation Disorder

• Language Disorder

• Phonological Disorder

The most prevalent communication impairment affecting children and contributing to various other challenges like socialization and academic achievements

• Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

• Language Disorder

• Articulation Disorder

• Speech Sound Disorder

Focuses on predictable, rule-based errors that affect more than one sound

• Speech Sound Disorder

• Articulation Disorder

• Phonological Disorder

• Language Disorder

Focuses on errors in the production of individual speech sounds; motor movement of speech is disorder

• Speech sound disorder

• Articulation disorder

• Phonological disorder

• Language disorder

A range of difficulties with how a child says sounds and words that hinder how others can understand what is being said

• Phonological Disorder

• Language Disorder

• Speech Sound Disorder

• Articulation Disorder