Preschool Language Disorders: Causes and Number
What causes preschool language disorders?
Often the cause of a language disorder in not known. Some causes of preschool language disorders may be:
- Family history of language disorders
- Premature birth
- Low birth-weight
- Hearing loss
- Autism
- Intellectual disabilities
- Syndromes, like Down syndrome or Fragile X syndrome
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Stroke
- Brain injury
- Tumors
- Cerebral palsy
- Poor nutrition
- Failure to thrive
How common are preschool language disorders?
Information about the incidence and prevalence of preschool language disorders is available in the ASHA report, Communication Facts: Incidence and Prevalence of Communication Disorders and Hearing Loss in Children – 2008 Edition.
What are the types of preschool language disorders?
Problems with understanding are called receptive language disorders. Problems with talking are called expressive language disorders. Children may have problems with both. Sometimes a language disorder is called specific language impairment, or SLI.
Types of preschool language disorders may include problems with:
- Understanding basic concepts, questions, and directions
- Learning new words
- Saying words in the right order
- Having conversations and telling stories
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