PRESENTATION OF A CASE. FROM SPECIFIC LANGUAGE DISORDER TO DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER

Abstract

Language is a skill whose essential purpose is to communicate, but that is not its only function. It also has other purposes such as regulating behavior, incorporating information from the world and developing thought.

The clinical case presented in the article represents the frequent symptomatology in many children with a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder, who at the beginning of life, in addition to language difficulties, exhibit other problems that alter their development. According to the CATALISE Consortium (2016), children with a diagnosis of language disorder may have comorbidities that detract from the specificity of the language difficulty, even though it may still be the primary deficit.