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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 [...]
Rhea Paul, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Sacred Heart University “Einstein didn’t talk until he was four.” “My two-year-old isn’t talking because her big sister talks for her.” “My toddler isn’t talking but he’s had [...]
Lisa Archibald University of Western Ontario Working memory is to the ability to hold and manipulate information in mind. Here are a few tasks that require working memory: Remembering the cost of item [...]
Karla K. McGregor Boys Town National Research Hospital The school years are a period of rapid vocabulary growth. Although the average student learns about 1000 new root words per year, every child is [...]