Language difficulty in adults (in plain English)

What is language?


Language is the ability to understand words and to use them to make sentences.
What types of language difficulty affect adults?


A language difficulty can include problems with:


* comprehension (understanding what other people say)
* expression (putting words together in the right order to make sentences)


Some adults may have had a language difficulty since childhood. It may not have gone away.


Others might develop a language difficulty after a medical condition such as a stroke or a head injury.


When people develop language difficulties later in life, this is called an acquired disorder. ..Next....