[Audimutitas: An analysis]

There are children who are assumed to have normal hearing and normal intelligence, but who do not speak at all. The phoniatric diagnosis for these children used to be audimutitas. Nowadays these children are not specified any more. They are called language-disturbed and are diagnosed and treated like all other language-disturbed children. An analysis is made of 46 nonspeaking children, aged 1.5-3, who are assumed to understand language in a proper way. The analysis deals with their language (language comprehension, language production and pragmatics) as well as with medical and psychological factors influencing the language disorder. We found no correlations between language comprehension, language production and pragmatics. So, when we know one language aspect, we cannot be sure of the others. We also found various factors contributing to the language problem.