Communication disorder

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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
• 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
  • stuttering
  • oesophageal voice

See also:

• Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders

External links:

• List of communication disorder related links

This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Communication disorder. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.