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## Background

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A communication disorder is a disease or condition that partially or totally prevents human communication. The defect can be in producing, receiving or understanding the communication.

Examples of communication disorders:

* autism \-- a developmental defect that affects understanding of emotional communication
* aphasia \-- loss of the ability to produce or comprehend language
* Learning disability \- Both speaking and listening components of the definition
* Dysnomia \- Deficit involving word retrieval
* Asperger Syndrome \- Areas of social and pragmatic language
* Semantic Pragmatic Disorder \- Challenges with the semantic and pragmatic aspects of language
* blindness \-- a defect of the eye or visual system
* deafness \-- a defect of the ear or auditory system
* dyslexia \-- a defect of the systems used in reading
* dyscalculia \-- a defect of the systems used in communicating numbers
* expressive language disorder \-- affects speaking and understanding where there is no delay in non-verbal intelligence.
* mixed receptive-expressive language disorder \-- affects speaking, understanding, reading and writing where there is no delay in non-verbal intelligence.
* speech disorders such as
* cluttering, a speech organization disorder
* stuttering
* oesophageal voice
* speech sound disorder
* specific language impairment
* dysarthria

See also:

* Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders

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