Speech and language disorder

  SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDER   Speech  and  language problems are the most common disability of childhood yet they are the least well detected .  speech disorders and language disorders can occur separately or together.   Speech disorders  are deficits that may prevent speech from being produced at all, or result in speech that cannot be understood or is abnormal in some other way.  Whereas,  language disorders  interfere with a child's ability to understand the code, to produce the code, or both .  Speech-language impairment sometimes emerges during infancy with challenges in response to sound, atypical birth cries, or limited response to others and progresses through the toddler and preschool age with limited comprehension of spoken language and difficult interactions with peers and others as well as delays in producing first words and word combinations.      The etiology of most cases of speech-language impairmen...