Glossary for Delay in Talking

Medical terms related to Delay in Talking or mentioned in this section include:

• Autism: Childhood mental condition with social and communication difficulties.
• Behavioral symptoms: Symptoms of personal behavior.
• Cerebral Palsy: Any brain disorder causing movement disability
• Child abuse and neglect:
• Child health symptoms: Symptoms related to pediatric (child) health.
• Cleft palate: This when there is a congenital fissure of the median line of the palate.
• Cognitive impairment: General loss of mental or cognitive ability
• Communication symptoms: Symptoms related to problems with communication.
• Deafness: Partial or complete hearing loss
• Delayed talking in children: Delayed talking in children refers to a child who experiences a slow or late development in speech skills.
• Developmental problems: Physical or mental development difficulty.
• Difficulty talking: Where ones has a problem with communicating through speech
• Down Syndrome: A chromosome syndrome causing physical effects and mental retardation.
• Face symptoms: Symptoms affecting the face
• Fragile-X Syndrome: A rare inherited characterized by various physical anomalies as well as mental retardation. The symptoms are milder in females.
• Head injury: Any injury that occurs to the head
• Head symptoms: Symptoms affecting the head or brain
• Intellectual impairment: The impairment of ones cognition
• Klinefelter syndrome: A genetic condition where males have at least one extra X chromosome or extra copies of both the X and Y chromosomes in each cell. Normally male cells contain one X and one Y chromosome in each cell. The condition is not inherited but is a result of problems during cell division. Klinefelter syndrome variants is a more severe form of the condition as it involves more than one extra X or X and Y chromosome in each cell.
• Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: A neurological disorder which results in aphasia, epileptic seizures and inability to recognize sounds.
• Physical conditions: Any condition that physically affects an individual
• Prader-Willi syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by reduced muscle tone, obesity and small hands and feet.
• Small baby: Small size of newborn baby
• Speech symptoms: Problems with speech or voice.
• Williams Syndrome: A syndrome characterised by mental retardation, facial abnormalities and emotional instability

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Delay in Talking:

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