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Speech development disorders in children with injuries to the anterior part of the frontal lobes in the early stage of life do not stem from strictly linguistic difficulties as in the cases of alalia, or from realization difficulties as in dysarthric cases, but are caused by disturbances of the controlling verbal function, and manifest themselves as linguistic interaction disorders, difficulties in acquiring pragmatic language rules and in the realization of the emotional, modal, informative and action function of utterance. Diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties with regard to children with injuries to the frontal brain parts arise from the fact that previous studies failed to define the general criteria for classifying this group of disorders into a separate category of deficits, which are called frontal lobe syndrome in the case of adults. This problem is illustrated in the article by the case of a 20-year-old girl, who suffered an extensive injury to both frontal lobes as a result of a craniocerebral injury at the age of four months. The picture of disorders in the socio-emotional, communicative-linguistic and cognitive spheres in the studied girl during her childhood and adolescence and in early adulthood, and its dynamics reveal a difference in comparison both with intellectual disability and frontal lobe syndrome in adults.