LANGUAGE DISORDERS

language Disorder
• Any pathological condition which has adverse consequences for the sufferer’s ability
to use language normally.
• Any aspect of language can be impaired
• It can affect both spoken and written
• Brain damage affects users of sign language too – what is damaged is language, and
not merely the ability to produce or to perceive speech
• Language disabilities must be carefully distinguished from speech defects
• Is there a correlation between lack of intelligence
• A language disorder may be either congenital, i.e. present from the time of birth
( developmental language disorder) or acquired
Developmental Language Disorders
• Congenital disorders involve the failure to acquire the language system in the
normal time and/or patterns.
• Biological reasons, Family history, gender, parental education, etc.
• This may be recovered
• This may continue till early adulthood
• Eg dyslexia and dysgraphia, stammering, autism, Down’s Syndrome
• Acquired Language Disorders
• Acquired disorders, affecting adolescents and adults, occur well after the acquisition
of language and involve the loss, diminution, or disruption of previously intact
language abilities.
• The best-known disabilities are the several types of aphasia, all of which result from
injury to more or less identifiable language areas of the brain.

• These problems may be receptive

• involving impaired language comprehension
• Expressive language disorder
• Inability to pronounce
• Inability to produce functional words
• Less vocabulary
• involving language production or a combination of both.
• Organic vs
• Neurological and physiological cause
• Functional
• Psychological cause
• Performance vs
• Phonology – surface level
• System
 • Grammar – deep structure level
Reasons of language disorders
• ‘central’ disorders – Brain and nervous systems
• impairments of speech organs
• Nutrition
• Psychological
• Genetic vs accident
Effects of language Disorder
• Delay in language acquisition
• Change the order of acquisition
• Deviation in language
• May lead to depression and other behavioural problems
• Bilingual sufferers may lose one language
• Hamper forming/maintaining relationships
Treatment of Language disorders
• It should be a collective effort
• Right diagnosis
• Right intervention at the right time

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