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Susan Ebbels, Ph.D. Director, Moor House Research and Training Institute Language and communication skills are vital in our personal, social and work lives in a highly verbal world. All children deser [...]
Elizabeth D. Peña University of California, Irvine Lisa M. Bedore Temple University How can we identify DLD in bilingual children? Bilingual children with DLD have a hard time learning both of their l [...]
Amy Wilder The University of Utah Aren’t girls naturally better at language than boys? Does this explain why fewer girls than boys receive speech-language therapy? Researchers have been looking into g [...]
Karla N. Washington, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati We communicate to be included with others and to learn. This happens so easily most of the time. We don’t stop to think about just how important goo [...]
Erin Smolak, Ph.D. Boys Town National Research Hospital People with developmental language disorder (DLD) may also have other developmental problems. When one person has two or more problems it is cal [...]
Pamela A. Hadley, Ph.D. University of Illinois Combining words to make sentences is an important milestone as children learn to talk. Early sentences have I-subjects and are often about what the child [...]
Holly L. Storkel, Ph.D. University of Kansas “My child doesn’t talk like other kids.” A lot goes into talking so there can be different problems that affect talking. Did you know that talking includes [...]
Jake Michaelson, PhD University of Iowa rather than a single cause, developmental language disorder (DLD) is caused by multiple risk factors working together. Parents should not feel a sense of guilt [...]
Laurence B. Leonard, Ph.D. Purdue University People with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) can be found all over the world. Regardless of the language being learned, there are individuals with sig [...]