The definition of a phonological disorder is a type of speech production disorder, meaning children or individuals who are showing signs of difficulties organizing sounds and grammar errors that allow them to create speech (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).
Important factors to know when looking into speech disorders, especially with children who may speak more than one language is, you are going to see some errors occuring as they continue to learn in their language but with a disorder it is seen that they are having difficulty and continue making errors especially after the expected age (estimated between 3 through 5 years old) which can occur on their own after (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).