Speech and Language Disorders in the School Setting

Children may experience one or more of the following disorders:

• Speech sound disorders - (difficulty pronouncing sounds)
• Language disorders - (difficulty understanding what they hear as well as expressing themselves with words)
• Cognitive-communication disorders - (difficulty with thinking skills including perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intellect and imagination)
• Stuttering (fluency) disorders - (interruption of the flow of speech that may include hesitations, repetitions, prolongations of sounds or words)
• Voice disorders - (quality of voice that may include hoarseness, nasality, volume (too loud or soft) 

Resource:

http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/schoolsFAQ.htm