Understanding Language Disorders: Types and Impact on Communication
Language disorders refer to problems in understanding, processing, and producing language. Language serves as a foundation of our communication and these difficulties can affect communication skills. These disorders can extend from difficulties with speaking or understanding words, leading to struggle forming sentences. Language disorders can hinder a person's academic performance, and impact social interaction, and overall quality of life. Types of Language Disorders Understanding the types can help identify and manage them. Expressive Language Disorder People with expressive language disorder face difficulty expressing themselves through writing or speech. Their ability to understand language can also be impacted. This difficulty leads to struggles in forming sentences, using the grammar, or finding the right words to form the sentence. In the case of children, they face problems with expressing "I...I...want...um...water," instead of "I want water". Even af...