Types of Language and Social Skills Disorders
Receptive Language Disorders – this occurs when a child has difficulty decoding incoming language. It refers to a child’s ability to understand language. ASHA defines this as “ a difficulty with understanding spoken or written language. It affects a person’s ability to comprehend language, making it challenging to follow directions, understand questions, and grasp complex sentences. This is in contrast to expressive language, which is the ability to share thoughts and ideas. “
Expressive Language Disorders – this occurs when a child has difficulty putting language together in order to express thoughts. ASHA defines this as “a persistent difficulty in using language to share thoughts, ideas, and feelings. This can include problems with how words are put together into sentences, asking questions, and using grammar correctly. These difficulties can manifest as a limited vocabulary, poor grammar, and trouble forming complete sentences.”
Central Auditory Processing Disorders-this occurs when a child has difficulty processing spoken language. ASHA defines this as “an auditory processing disorder (APD) is a difficulty in the neural processing of auditory information in the central nervous system, which is not a result of peripheral hearing loss or a higher-order cognitive or language issue. This means the ears are physically capable of hearing, but the brain has trouble interpreting the sounds it receives. This is demonstrated by poor performance in skills like sound localization, auditory discrimination, temporal processing, and processing sound in noise.”
Social Communication Disorder –ASHA “Social (pragmatic) communication disorder (SCD), as persistent difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. This includes challenges with social purposes like greeting, changing communication to match different contexts, following conversational rules, and understanding nonliteral language. These deficits result in functional limitations in effective communication, social participation, and other areas. At HMS we offer both individual and group setting to create a safe space to focus on social communication. These skills are also targeted from the moment you enter the office while being greeted by reception. We make every moment count.
