Communicative Disorders in Children

Children with communication disorders have deficits in their ability to exchange information with others. A communication disorder may occur in the realm of language, speech and/or hearing. Language difficulties include spoken language, reading and/or writing difficulties.These children get insulated from social situations that would facilitate higher substance use.Children suffering from hearing impairment show oral manifestation of hypoplastic teeth. Autistic child suffer from oral habits such as bruxism, tongue thrusting. Most common oral manifestation of child with Down syndrome includes fissured tongue, angular cheilitis, delayed eruption of teeth, missing and malformed teeth, microdontia, crowding, malocclusion, poor oral hygiene. A pediatric dentist should not only be aware of the symptoms and problems associated with communication impairment, particularly when it relates to orofacial and dentofacial anomalies but also should know the appropriate dental treatment plan and the required behaviour modification techniques.