In this article, updates related to communication disorders, strictly congenital character, are described, according to the latest reviews published by the American Psychiatric Association in its fifth edition, which considered the main contributions of neuroscience, based on the research conducted around the theme of neurodevelopmental disorders, which during the past two decades, have attracted widespread scenario of possibilities for greater understanding of the various changes in the area of psychological development, redefining and clarifying more precisely those relevant characteristics of the various related clinical conditions. Furthermore, these studies have contributed to revealing findings, both syndromic and symptomatic level, for a better understanding of these early development disorders, being highly relevant contributions in the field of child neuropsychology, which i...

ABSTRACT Williams’s syndrome is an unusual abnormality of neurodevelopment with a characteristic behavioral phenotype. The article shows a theoretical review of the clinical and language characteristics of this syndrome features, from a careful bibliographical synthesis. These will be described under a neuropsycolinguistic approach, with emphasis on semantic and pragmatic components of language and lexical-semantic information processing, being the main axes analyzed the deficit in verbal behavior of Williams’s syndrome. Also recognize the neuro-linguistic contributions of Luria. It is showed criteria for the understanding of the organizational principles of the language, associated with changes in the language of Williams’s syndrome. The article provides, from a child neuropsychology perspective, a greater understanding of abnormal neuropsycolinguistic features of Williams’s syn...