[Multilingualism and speech pathology (author's transl)].

Bilingualism, plurilingualism respectively multilingualism can be associated with pathological deviations. Besides hereditary components, it can be observed that exogenic influences such as cerebral injuries etc, may render more difficult multilingualism or even prevent multilingualism. It is the task of the phoniatry to recognize and to deal with this problem. For example, the following situations were explained in terms of recognition, symptoms, and treatment of the communicational disease via multilingualism from the point of phoniatrical-logopaedical view: delayed speech and language development; stammering and dysgrammatism; stuttering; legastheny, and within the framework of hearing disorders. The study is to be conceived as reference for the specialized otorhinolaryngological physician, the problem of multilingualism to comprehend in view of verbal communication disorders.