#logopedics

• 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.
• Alalic — The feminine form of the adjective 'alalic'; it describes a manifestation, a condition, a disorder, or a female person presenting the specific symptoms of alalia, a pathological stage marked by the absence of articulated speech while hearing and intelligence remain intact. From a clinical and therapeutic standpoint, the term structurally applies to the expressive or receptive forms of this dysfunction.
• Audimutitas — A neurological condition or rare developmental disorder characterized by the total or partial absence of articulated speech (muteness) in an individual who possesses a perfectly functional auditory apparatus and normal intelligence; alalia. This pathology is due to dysfunctions in the cerebral language centers or psychogenic causes, where the individual hears and understands but cannot produce verbal speech.
• Audiophonology — An interdisciplinary branch of medicine and behavioral sciences dealing with the integrated study of hearing, vocal emission mechanisms, and verbal communication disorders; the science of audition and phonatory correlation. The field combines knowledge from otolaryngology, neurology, acoustics, and logopedics.