Language Disorders
Language Disorders
Language
disorders- •Presented by:
•Gowher nazir
classification based
on ICD & DSM
ICD-10: the tenth International Classification
of Diseases (ICD-10) produced by the World
Health Organization (WHO)
• A specific developmental disorder in which the child's ability to use expressive spoken language is markedly
below the appropriate level for his or her mental age, but in which language comprehension is within normal
limits. There may or may not be abnormalities in articulation.
• Includes: developmental dysphasia or aphasia, expressive type
• Excludes: acquired aphasia with epilepsy (F80.3)
• developmental aphasia or dysphasia, receptive type (F80.2)
• dysphasia and aphasia NOS (R47.0)
• elective mutism (F94.0)
• mental retardation (F70 - F79)
• pervasive developmental disorders (F84.-)
Diagnostic Criteria for
Expressive Language
Disorder: ICD-10
• Symptoms:
• Expressive language skills, as assessed on standardized
tests, below the 2 standard-deviation limit for the child‘s age.
• Discrepancy:
• Receptive language standardized test scores within 2
standard deviations of the mean for the child’s age.
• F80.2 Receptive language disorder
• A specific developmental disorder in which the child's
understanding of language is below the appropriate level for his or
her mental age. In almost all cases, expressive language is
markedly disturbed and abnormalities in word-sound production
are common.
• Includes: congenital auditory imperception
• developmental aphasia or dysphasia, receptive type
• developmental Wernicke's aphasia
• word deafness
• Excludes: acquired aphasia with epilepsy (F8O.3)
• autism (F84.0, F84.1)
• dysphasia and aphasia, NOS (R47.0) or expressive type (F80.1)
• elective mutism (F94.0)
• language delay due to deafness (H90-H91)
• mental retardation (F70-F79)
Diagnostic criteria for
Receptive Language
Disorder: ICD-10
• Symptoms:
• Receptive language skills, as
assessed on standardized tests, below
the 2 standard deviation limit for the
child’s age.
• Discrepancy:
• Receptive language skills at least 1
standard deviation below nonverbal
IQ as assessed on a standardized test.
• F80.3 Acquired aphasia with epilepsy [Landau -
Kleffner syndrome]
• disorder.
AS PER
communication, or sign language.
2. Limited sentence structure (ability to put words and word endings together
to form sentences based on the rules of grammar and morphology).