Speech disorders, impairments, or impediments, are a type of communication disorder in which normal speech is disrupted. This can mean fluency disorders...

A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and...

Disorganized speech leads to an inference of disorganized thought. Thought disorders include derailment, pressured speech, poverty of speech, tangentiality...

A communication disorder is any disorder that affects an individual's ability to comprehend, detect, or apply language and speech to engage in dialogue...

communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency...

Apraxia of speech (AOS), also called verbal apraxia, is a speech sound disorder affecting an individual's ability to translate conscious speech plans into...

of specific mental disorders, like bipolar disorders, thought disorders, stress-related disorders, etc. – see below. Pressured speech is unrelenting, rapid...

of speech in adults may also be associated with specific psychiatric disorders. Absence of speech in children may involve communication disorders or language...

Motor speech disorders are a class of speech disorders that disturb the body's natural ability to speak due to neurologic impairments. These neurologic...

developing language disorders. For children with phonological and expressive language difficulties, there is evidence supporting speech and language therapy...