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Disorders of communication: why do they talk like that?
1Speech-Language Pathology, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Abstract:
People with communication disorders are seen frequently by electroneurodiagnostic technologists. Etiology of the disorders ranges from neurogenic, to anatomic and structural abnormality, to psychogenic, to developmental, to cryptogenic. After a short description of normal speech and language, this overview summarizes the disorders of speech and language providing a brief description of possible etiologies and symptomatology.
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