Specific code 2012 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 315.39
Other developmental speech or language disorder
  • Short description: Speech/language dis NEC.
  • ICD-9-CM 315.39 is a billable medical code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim, however, 315.39 should only be used for claims with a date of service on or before September 30, 2015. For claims with a date of service on or after October 1, 2015, use an equivalent ICD-10-CM code (or codes).
  • You are viewing the 2012 version of ICD-9-CM 315.39.
  • More recent version(s) of ICD-9-CM 315.39: 2013 2014 2015.
Convert to ICD-10-CM: 315.39 converts approximately to:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM F80.0 Phonological disorder
    Or:
  • 2015/16 ICD-10-CM F80.89 Other developmental disorders of speech and language
Approximate Synonyms
  • Articulation disorder due to hyperkinesis
  • Articulation disorder, speech, mild
  • Articulation disorder, speech, moderate
  • Articulation disorder, speech, severe
  • Compensatory phonatory substitution
  • Conversation content inappropriate
  • Conversation content limited
  • Delay, speech
  • Delayed articulatory and language development
  • Delayed pre-verbal development
  • Developmental articulation disorder
  • Developmental articulation disorder due to hyperkinesis
  • Developmental articulation disorder, mild
  • Developmental articulation disorder, moderate
  • Developmental articulation disorder, severe
  • Developmental disorder w speech delay
  • Developmental dyslalia
  • Developmental language delay
  • Developmental motor speech disorder
  • Developmental phonological disorder
  • Developmental receptive language delay
  • Developmental receptive language disorder
  • Developmental speech and language disorder
  • Developmental speech disorder
  • Developmental speech disorder due to hyperkinesis
  • Developmental verbal dyspraxia
  • Discourse difficulties
  • Discourse disorder
  • Disorder of speech and language development
  • Dyslexia AND/OR speech dysfunction
  • Dyslexia, developmental
  • Immature sound system
  • Lexical syntactic disorder
  • Limited sound system
  • Mild developmental articulation disorder
  • Mild receptive language delay
  • Moderate developmental articulation disorder
  • Moderate receptive language delay
  • Motor speech disorder
  • Non-contrastive sound system
  • Normal non-fluency
  • On examination - speech delay
  • Phoneme-grapheme conversion deficit
  • Phonological (speech) disorder
  • Phonological delay
  • Phonological disorder
  • Phonological programming deficit
  • Phonological syntactic disorder
  • Poverty of speech
  • Receptive developmental language delay
  • Receptive language delay
  • Receptive language delay, mild
  • Receptive language delay, moderate
  • Receptive language delay, severe
  • Receptive language disorder
  • Semantic-pragmatic disorder
  • Severe developmental articulation disorder
  • Severe receptive language delay
  • Specific language impairment
  • Speech and language disorder
  • Speech and language dyspraxias
  • Speech and phonology impairments
  • Speech babble
  • Speech delay
  • Speech limited
315.39 Excludes
  • lisping and lalling (307.9)
Applies To
  • Developmental articulation disorder
  • Dyslalia
  • Phonological disorder
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 315.39:
  • Agraphia (absolute) 784.69
    • developmental 315.39
  • Amusia 784.69
    • developmental 315.39
  • 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
  • Delay, delayed
  • Development
    • delayed (see also Delay, development) 783.40
      • arithmetical skills 315.1
      • language (skills) 315.31
      • learning skill, specified NEC 315.2
      • mixed skills 315.5
      • motor coordination 315.4
      • reading 315.00
      • specified
        • learning skill NEC 315.2
        • type NEC, except learning 315.8
      • speech 315.39
        • and language due to hearing loss 315.34
        • associated with hyperkinesia 314.1
        • phonological 315.39
      • spelling 315.09
      • written expression 315.2
  • Disorder - see also Disease
    • phonological 315.39
    • semantic pragmatic 315.39
  • 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
  • Retardation
    • development, developmental, specific (see also Disorder, development, specific) 315.9
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