speech disorder

Noun
  1. A disorder of oral speech (synset 114424081)
    is a type of: disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
    subtypes:
    • anarthria - partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system
    • aphonia, voicelessness - a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice
    • cataphasia - a speech disorder in which the same word is repeated several times in succession
    • dysarthria - impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
    • dyslogia - impaired ability to express ideas verbally; usually resulting from difficulties of reasoning (as in feeblemindedness or certain psychoses)
    • dysphonia - speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonation
    • lallation - defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l'
    • lambdacism - speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l'
    • lisp - a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
    • stammer, stutter - a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds
    same as: defect of speech, speech defect

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