Which term describes the impaired comprehension and/or use of spoken, written, and/or other symbolic systems?

• A. Language Disorder
• B. Morphology
• C. Syntax
• D. Semantics

Answer: (A)

Language disorder is a broad impairment in understanding and/or using language across modalities, including spoken and written forms, and can involve multiple aspects of language or more than one modality. It captures difficulties across the system of language, not just a single component. Morphology concerns word structure, syntax concerns sentence structure, and semantics concerns meaning, so these describe specific parts of language rather than the overall condition. When the description points to problems with comprehension and/or use across spoken, written, and other symbolic systems, the best fit is language disorder.