ICD-11 classes
06 Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders
Neurodevelopmental disorders
6A01 — Developmental speech or language disorders
ICD-11 6A01 — Developmental speech or language disorders
Developmental speech or language disorders arise during the developmental period and are characterised by difficulties in understanding or producing speech and language or in using language in context for the purposes of communication that are outside the limits of normal variation expected for age and level of intellectual functioning. The observed speech and language problems are not attributable to regional, social, or cultural/ethnic language variations and are not fully explained by anatomical or neurological abnormalities. The presumptive aetiology for Developmental speech or language disorders is complex, and in many individual cases, is unknown.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
Diagnosis with code 6A01 contains 5 clarifying diagnoses:
- 6A01.0 — Developmental speech sound disorder
- 6A01.1 — Developmental speech fluency disorder
- 6A01.2 — Developmental language disorder
It contains 4 clarifying diagnoses. - 6A01.Y — Other specified developmental speech or language disorders
- 6A01.Z — Developmental speech or language disorders, unspecified