[Speech therapy intervention in comprehension disorders]

Most of the studies conducted on the subject of language pathologies have focused on the expressive aspect, but there is now generalised agreement on considering that most language disorders stem essentially from problems in the processes allowing input of verbal information provided by the environment.

We analyse the processes that take place in a child's mind when faced with verbal production and the communicative intentions of others, in an attempt to understand the nature of their difficulties.

The comprehension of oral language brings into play a series of extremely complex processes that combine different domains of higher mental functioning. Speech therapy intervention must ensure it analyses the true extent of the verbal comprehension of each child and attempt to achieve a representation of the levels of alteration involved in the faulty understanding.