#language impairment

• Alalic — Pertaining to alalia, relating to alalia, or affected by this pathological language disorder; characterized by the structural or functional inability to speak and articulate words, although intellect, auditory function, and peripheral speech organs are fully intact. In clinical terms, it describes the specific symptomatology of a patient (usually a child) who cannot develop speech due to developmental dysfunctions or lesions within the higher cerebral nervous centers.