What are the symptoms of language disorders in children?

If a child has problems with brain development, his or her language ability will be affected to a certain extent, which is medically called a language disorder. The symptoms of this disease are actually quite obvious, such as specific speech articulation disorder, expressive language disorder, etc., which is a situation where one wants to express something but is unable to do so.

1. Specific speech articulation disorder

Refers to a specific speech development disorder characterized by the child's ability to use speech below the level expected for his or her mental age, but normal language skills.

1. Difficulty in pronunciation. Pronunciation errors are made when speaking, making it difficult for others to understand. The severity of the child's speech omissions, distortions, or substitutions exceeds the range of variation among children of the same age.

2. Normal language comprehension and expression ability (verbal IQ, performance IQ and total IQ of Wechsler Children's Intelligence Test are all ≥ 70);

3. Not due to hearing impairment, oral disease, neurological disease, mental retardation, or pervasive developmental disorder.

2. Expressive language disorder

Refers to a specific speech and language development disorder in which the child's expressive oral language ability is significantly lower than the level expected for his or her mental age, but language comprehension is within the normal range and pronunciation abnormalities may or may not be present.

1. The ability to express verbally is significantly lower than that of the child's actual age. At the age of two, he could not speak a single word, and at the age of three, he could not speak a short sentence of two words. When he was a little older, he still had a small vocabulary, spoke too short sentences, and made grammatical errors, etc. The severity of the problem exceeded the variation range of children of the same age.

2. Normal language comprehension ability;

3. Normal total IQ in standardized tests (operational IQ and total IQ of Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children ≥ 70);

4. Not due to hearing impairment, oral disease, neurological disease, mental retardation, or pervasive developmental disorder.