Identify and explain five forms of language disorders.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Answers should include:
• Phonological disorder: an abnormal organization of the phonologic system or a significant deficit in speech production or perception. A developmental phonological disorder is the difficulty of organizing speech sounds into patterns.
• Apraxia of speech is a neurological phonologic disorder that results from impairment of the capacity to select, program, or execute the positioning of the speech muscles to produce speech sounds.
• Morphological disorder occurs when individuals have problems learning and using morphological rules. They use fewer grammatical morphemes and produce more grammatical errors than same-age peers.
• Syntactical deficits occur when individuals have difficulty acquiring the rules that govern word order and other aspects of grammar such as subject-verb agreement.
• Semantic disorders are characterized by poor vocabulary development, inappropriate use of word meanings, and/or inability to comprehend word meanings.
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