Language Disorders

Language Disorders

1. ASD

   • significant difficulties in social communication and interaction, engagement in restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, and either hypo- or hyper- sensitive to sensory stimuli
   • poor joint attention, impaired nonverbal behaviors, minimal imitation of communication, difficulties w symbolic and imaginative play

2. SLI

   • persistent difficulty with use of verbal and nonverbal communication
   • impairment in ability to shift style to match context, deficits for social purposes, difficulty with rules of conversation, difficulty with non-literal language

3. ID

   • limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior
   • 30% due to prenatal causes, 15-20% to environmental factors