Language of aphasic and schizophrenic children have many features in common: high auditory thresholds for speech, inferior auditory discrimination, feedback distortions, echolalia, limitations in verbal output, and conceptual dificits. Unlike schizophrenic youngsters, aphasics have short auditory memory spans and do not present diviation in pitch, stress and inflection. Aphasic children do not exhibit a manneristic style or an idiosyncratic use of words which are characteristic of disturbances that are related to psychopathology.