Structured Summary
Abstract
Disorders of verbal and nonverbal communication caused by receptive or expressive LANGUAGE DISORDERS, cognitive dysfunction (e.g., MENTAL RETARDATION), psychiatric conditions, and HEARING DISORDERS.
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Synonyms
27 entry terms
- Communicative Disorders
- Communication Disorder
- Communicative Disorder
- Acquired Communication Disorders
- Childhood Communication Disorders
- Communication Disabilities
- Communication Disorders, Childhood
- Communication Disorders, Developmental
- Communication Disorders, Neurogenic
- Communicative Dysfunction
- Developmental Communication Disorders
- Neurogenic Communication Disorders
- Acquired Communication Disorder
- Childhood Communication Disorder
- Communication Disability
- Communication Disorder, Acquired
- Communication Disorder, Childhood
- Communication Disorder, Developmental
- Communication Disorder, Neurogenic
- Communication Disorders, Acquired
- Communicative Dysfunctions
- Developmental Communication Disorder
- Disabilities, Communication
- Disability, Communication
- Dysfunction, Communicative
- Dysfunctions, Communicative
- Neurogenic Communication Disorder
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31 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified: prefer specifics
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History Note
1998(1985)
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Previous Indexing
- Hearing Disorders (1966-1984)
- Language Disorders (1967-1984)
- Speech Disorders (1966-1984)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Communication Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003147. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003147
- Communication Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_disorder
- Communication Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1058691