COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
from Ellen Bouchard
Cognitive-communicative disorders are defined as alterations in communication due to deficits in a variety of linguistic and nonlinguistic cognitive processes (ASHA, 1991).
Included in this is executive functioning, attention, information processing, memory, visuo-spatial perception, reasoning/problem solving, and psychosocial behavior.
Deficits in these areas affect success in an academic environment in the following ways:
 | Difficulty attending to and understanding complex commands |
| Difficulty retaining information from a story |
| Inability to organize spoken expression so that it is
coherent and to the point |
| Difficulty selecting appropriate topics of conversation |
