784.59 SPEECH DISTURBANCE NEC

Code Information

  • Diagnosis Code: 784.59
  • Short Description: Speech disturbance NEC
  • Long Description: Other speech disturbance
  • Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Code Classification

  • Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions (780–799)
    • Symptoms (780-789)
      • 784 Symptoms involving head and neck
        • 784.59 Speech disturbance NEC

Synonyms

  • Acquired dysphasias
  • Amphoric voice
  • Anarthria
  • Anterior dysphasia
  • Articulatory defect
  • Articulatory defect due to conductive hearing loss
  • Articulatory defect secondary to dental defect
  • Articulatory dyspraxia
  • Bradylalia
  • Broca's dysphasia
  • Congenital dysphasia
  • Congenital receptive dysphasia
  • Difficulty articulating clearly
  • Difficulty articulating words
  • Difficulty imitating speech sounds
  • Difficulty making movements for speech
  • Difficulty making speech sounds
  • Difficulty placing for articulation
  • Difficulty using blended sounds
  • Difficulty using clicks in speech
  • Difficulty using consonant vowel combination
  • Difficulty using consonant vowel consonant combination
  • Difficulty using correct manner of articulation
  • Difficulty using glottalic airstream for speech
  • Difficulty using pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Difficulty using secondary articulation
  • Difficulty using single consonant
  • Difficulty using single vowels
  • Difficulty using sounds in isolation
  • Difficulty using velaric airstream for speech
  • Disturbance in speech
  • Disturbance in speech rhythm
  • Does not articulate clearly
  • Does not articulate words
  • Does not imitate speech sounds
  • Does not make movements for speech
  • Does not make speech sounds
  • Does not use clicks in speech
  • Does not use glottalic airstream for speech
  • Does not use pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Does not use respiratory support for speech
  • Does not use secondary articulation
  • Does not use velaric airstream for speech
  • Dysfluency
  • Dyslalia
  • Dysphasia
  • Dyspraxia of velopharynx
  • Dysprosody of
  • Efferent motor dysphasia
  • Embololalia
  • Explosive speech
  • Expressive dysphasia
  • Fluent aphasia
  • Frontal dynamic dysphasia
  • Has difficulty with speech
  • Hypophonia
  • Impairment of speech form
  • Impairment of voice production
  • Incoherent speech
  • Lalling
  • Logorrhea
  • Mimmation
  • Mirror speech
  • Mixed dysphasia
  • Mixed transcortical dysphasia
  • Motor dysprosody
  • Mussitation
  • Nasal and facial grimacing associated with speaking
  • Nasal emission on pressure consonants
  • Non-Alzheimer's progressive dysphasia
  • Non-fluent aphasia
  • On examination - dysphasia - motor
  • On examination - dysphasia - sensory
  • On examination - speech defect
  • Oral dyspraxia
  • Oral-verbal dyspraxia
  • Paraphrasia
  • Posterior dysphasia
  • Pressure of speech
  • Receptive dysphasia
  • Reduced intraoral pressure
  • Restricted sound system
  • Semantic dysphasia
  • Slurred speech
  • Slurring
  • Specific speech impairment
  • Speech dysfunction
  • Speech problem
  • Staccato speech
  • Transcortical motor dysphasia
  • Transcortical sensory dysphasia
  • Unable to articulate clearly
  • Unable to articulate words
  • Unable to imitate speech sounds
  • Unable to make movements for speech
  • Unable to make speech sounds
  • Unable to place for articulation
  • Unable to use blended sounds
  • Unable to use clicks in speech
  • Unable to use consonant vowel combination
  • Unable to use consonant vowel consonant combination
  • Unable to use correct manner of articulation
  • Unable to use glottalic airstream for speech
  • Unable to use pulmonic airstream for speech
  • Unable to use respiratory support for speech
  • Unable to use secondary articulation
  • Unable to use single consonant
  • Unable to use single vowels
  • Unable to use sounds in isolation
  • Unable to use velaric airstream for speech
  • Velopharyngeal inadequacy
  • Velopharyngeal mislearning
  • Verbal dyspraxia
  • Verbigeration
  • Wernicke's dysphasia

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 784.59 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

  • Acataphasia 784.59
  • Defect, defective 759.9
    • speech NEC 784.59
      • developmental 315.39
      • late effect of cerebrovascular disease - see Late effect(s) (of) cerebrovascular disease, speech and language deficit
      • secondary to organic lesion 784.59
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • speech NEC 784.59
      • nonorganic origin 307.9
  • Disturbance - see also Disease
    • speech NEC 784.59
      • developmental 315.39
        • associated with hyperkinesis 314.1
      • secondary to organic lesion 784.59
  • Dyslalia 784.59
    • developmental 315.39
  • Dysphasia 784.59
  • Impediment, speech NEC 784.59
    • psychogenic 307.9
    • secondary to organic lesion 784.59
  • Slurred, slurring, speech 784.59
  • Speech
    • defect, disorder, disturbance, impediment NEC 784.59
      • psychogenic 307.9

Crosswalk Information

The code 784.59 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

ICD-9 Code ICD-10 Code ICD-10 Description
784.59 Right Arrow R47.02 Dysphasia
R47.81 Slurred speech
R47.89 Other speech disturbances
This ICD-9 to ICD-10 data is based on the 2018 General Equivalency Mapping (GEM) files published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for informational purposes only. The data is not an ICD-10 conversion tool and doesn’t guarantee clinical accuracy.

Similar Codes

ICD-9 Code ICD-9 Description
784.0 Headache
784.1 Throat pain
784.2 Swelling, mass, or lump in head and neck
784.3 Aphasia
784.40 Voice and resonance disorder, unspecified
784.41 Aphonia
784.42 Dysphonia
784.43 Hypernasality
784.44 Hyponasality
784.49 Other voice and resonance disorders
784.51 Dysarthria
784.52 Fluency disorder in conditions classified elsewhere
784.60 Symbolic dysfunction, unspecified
784.61 Alexia and dyslexia
784.69 Other symbolic dysfunction
784.7 Epistaxis
784.8 Hemorrhage from throat
784.91 Postnasal drip
784.92 Jaw pain
784.99 Other symptoms involving head and neck
This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014
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