Communication disorder

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Background

A communication disorder is a disease or condition that partially or totally prevents human communication. The defect can be in producing, receiving or understanding the communication.

Examples of communication disorders:

autism — a developmental defect that affects understanding of emotional communication
aphasia — loss of the ability to produce or comprehend language
Learning disability – Both speaking and listening components of the definition
Dysnomia – Deficit involving word retrieval
Asperger Syndrome – Areas of social and pragmatic language
Semantic Pragmatic Disorder – Challenges with the semantic and pragmatic aspects of language
blindness — a defect of the eye or visual system
deafness — a defect of the ear or auditory system
dyslexia — a defect of the systems used in reading
dyscalculia — a defect of the systems used in communicating numbers
expressive language disorder — affects speaking and understanding where there is no delay in non-verbal intelligence.
mixed receptive-expressive language disorder — affects speaking, understanding, reading and writing where there is no delay in non-verbal intelligence.
speech disorders such as
- cluttering, a speech organization disorder
- stuttering
- oesophageal voice
- speech sound disorder
- specific language impairment
- dysarthria