F80.0Specific speech articulation disorder
Code usage status
Primary diagnosis
May be used as the primary diagnosis
Apply only when it matches the confirmed diagnosis and the documented clinical record.
Specificity
Complete code in the classification
Use when the diagnosis matches and no exclusion applies.
- Chapter V
- Mental and behavioural disorders
- Group F80-F89
- Disorders of psychological development
- Official Vietnamese name
- Rối loạn kết âm xác định cụ thể
- Additional WHO coding guidance
- A specific developmental disorder in which the child's use of speech sounds is below the appropriate level for its mental age, but in which there is a normal level of language skills. Developmental: phonological disorder speech articulation disorder Dyslalia Functional speech articulation disorder Lalling Excl.: speech articulation impairment (due to): aphasia NOS (R47.0) apraxia (R48.2) hearing loss (H90-H91) mental retardation (F70-F79) with language developmental disorder: expressive (F80.1) receptive (F80.2)
Related F80 codes
F80
Specific developmental disorders of speech and language
F80.1
Primary diagnosis candidate
Expressive language disorder
F80.2
Primary diagnosis candidate
Receptive language disorder
F80.3
Primary diagnosis candidate
Acquired aphasia with epilepsy [Landau-Kleffner]
F80.8
Primary diagnosis candidate
Other developmental disorders of speech and language
F80.9
Primary diagnosis candidate
Developmental disorder of speech and language, unspecified
Clinical record checklist
View coding guide →- Confirm that the code matches the final documented diagnosis.
- Use one primary-diagnosis code and record only relevant additional conditions.
- Review Ministry indicators, inclusions, exclusions and notes.
- Do not infer a diagnosis beyond the clinical record.
2026 regulatory basis
Indicators are taken from columns 24–29 of the classification accompanying Circular 06/2026/TT-BYT, cross-referenced with Decision 1849/QĐ-BYT and Official Dispatch 4059/BYT-BH.
