Speech Disorders and Language Disorders: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Speech disorders/language disorders

Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).

  • Speech disorder
  • Speech disorder
  • Circumscribed developmental disorders of school skills such as.
    • Reading-spelling disorder (also called reading-spelling disorder, reading-spelling weakness, reading-spelling difficulty, and LRS; dyslexia, Latin legere “to read” and ancient Greek ἀσθένεια asthéneia “weakness” i.e. reading weakness).
    • Arithmetic disorder (dyscalculia)
    • Etc.

Circumscribed developmental disorders of speech and language (UESS)

  • Profound developmental disorders
  • Damage to or malformation of the speech organs
  • Hearing disorders
  • Neurological diseases
  • Emotional disorders (e.g., mutism),
  • Intelligence impairments:

    • 50-69: mild intelligence reduction
    • 35-49: moderate oligophrenia
    • 20-34: severe intelligence impairment