Health topics
Communication disorders
Understand selected conditions that can affect language, speech or communication.
Overview
About communication disorders
Communication can be affected by problems with language processing, movement, cognition or underlying neurologic disease. Aphasia is a language disorder; dementia and some movement or developmental conditions may also affect communication in different ways. These are related readings rather than interchangeable diagnoses.
Language and neurologic symptoms
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Conditions that may affect communication
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Cerebral palsy
Condition→Cerebral palsyEvidence-based condition reference.
Dementia
Condition→DementiaProgressive cognitive decline affecting independence, including Alzheimer, vascular, Lewy body and frontotemporal dementias.
Huntington disease
Explore symptoms, diagnosis, care and cited clinical information in the full condition article.
For diagnosis, treatment information and clinical sources, see the individual condition references. This page is a topical directory, not a clinical care guide.