Speech disorders, impairments, or impediments, are a type of communication disorder in which normal speech is disrupted. This can mean fluency disorders...

A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and...

A communication disorder is any disorder that affects an individual's ability to comprehend, detect, or apply language and speech to engage in dialogue...

Disorganized speech leads to an inference of disorganized thought. Thought disorders include derailment, pressured speech, poverty of speech, tangentiality...

Apraxia of speech (AOS), also called verbal apraxia, is a speech sound disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech plans into...

communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency...

spectrum disorder (ASD) or a thought disorder, a common symptom in schizophrenia or schizoid personality disorder. To diagnose stilted speech, researchers...

Children that are having speech delay disorders could have the following characteristics (Shriberg 1982): Speech mechanism in which speech is associated with...

mental disorders, such as bipolar disorders, thought disorders, and stress-related disorders among others.[citation needed] Pressured speech is unrelenting...

Motor speech disorders are a class of speech disorders that disturb the body's natural ability to speak due to neurologic impairments. These neurologic...

Expressive language disorder is one of the "specific developmental disorders of speech and language" recognized by the tenth edition of the International...

of speech in adults may also be associated with specific psychiatric disorders. Absence of speech in children may involve communication disorders or language...

vowels. FAS has many similarities to apraxia of speech (AoS), which is another motor speech disorder. Some researchers think that FAS is a mild form of...

developing language disorders. For children with phonological and expressive language difficulties, there is evidence supporting speech and language therapy...

Schizotypal personality disorder (StPD or SPD), also known as schizotypal disorder, is a cluster A personality disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical...

motor speech disorder can improve significantly. "Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which...

"developmental language disorder" in 2017, recognizing it as a subset of language disorder within the broader spectrum of speech, language, and communication...

have one or both types of impairment. These impairments/disorders are identified by a speech and language pathologist performing a direct observation...

Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder characterized externally by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables...

Auditory processing disorder (APD), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome, is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds...

Infantile speech, pedolalia, baby talk, infantile perseveration, or infantilism is a speech disorder, persistence of early speech development stage beyond...

(language) Dysarthria (speech) Spinal cord disorders Peripheral nervous system disorders (e.g., Peripheral neuropathy) Cranial nerve disorder (e.g., trigeminal...

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

affecting the speech muscles, or a general hearing impairment.[citation needed] Neurodevelopmental forms of auditory processing disorder (APD) are differentiable...

Dysarthria is a speech sound disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor–speech system and is characterized by poor...

diagnosis of schizophrenia. The symptoms of both disorders can include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, and...

infantilism" refers to infantilism of overall bodily development. Speech infantilism is a speech disorder. Similarly to some other medical terms (cretinism, idiotism)...

echolalia can be seen in dyspraxia and aphasia of speech. Echolalia can be an indicator of communication disorders in autism, but is neither unique to, nor synonymous...

dystonic movement, myoclonus, gait disorder) With swallowing symptoms With speech symptoms (e.g. dysphonia, slurred speech) With attacks or seizures With...

hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and thinking, as well as mood episodes. Schizoaffective disorder can often be misdiagnosed when the correct...