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Speech and Language Disorders
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COMMUNICATION DISORDER
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DISORDER • •
Impaired ability to communicate through verbal and sign language. The child has difficulty learning new words and speaking in complete and correct sentences; his or her speech is limited. MIXED RECEPTIVE EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DISORDER •
Includes the problems of expressive language disorder along with difficulty understanding (receiving) and determining the meaning of words and sentences.
PHONOLOGIC DISORDER •
Involves problems with articulation (forming sounds that are part of speech).
STUTTERING •
Disturbance of the normal fluency and time patterning of speech.