This common condition affects children’s spoken language development, but similarity to other disorders makes it hard to detect.

Receptive aphasia is a term that denotes problems with reading, interpreting, and comprehending spoken language. This problem affects the understanding of the meaning of spoken and written words.

At 2½ years of age, children who later developed reading disabilities were deficient in the length, syntactic complexity, and pronunciation accuracy of their spoken language, but not in lexical or ...

Assessment of specific receptive and expressive language abilities is needed in order to understand the patient's communication difficulties and facilitate communication.