Aetiology
Possible causes of speech delays include:
- mental retardation
- deafness
- cerebral palsy
- social deprivation can cause significant speech delays
- maturation delay (developmental language delay) (2)
- expressive language disorder (developmental expressive aphasia) (2)
- prematurity(1)
- elective mutism
- infantile autism
- degenerative central nervous system disease
- receptive aphasia(2)
- bilingualism (2)
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