Developmental Language Disorder services need to grow up!
To look at most speech pathology funding models, services, and research, you’d think that Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) self-cures miraculously at the end of childhood….
4 practical ways to improve the ‘dose form’ of language therapy for children with Developmental Language Disorder
The four tips (research paper link below): 1. Techniques Don’t just model. Provide lots of opportunities for children to produce the target(s). 2. Procedure First,…
“Nothing about us without us”* – what children with Developmental Language Disorder tell us about their relationships with peers – and what we should do in response
Research about children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) tells us that, compared to their typically developing peers: children with DLD have difficulties with peer relations…
Do language difficulties cause behavioural problems at school?
It’s been years since we last wrote about this important topic for families of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and other language difficulties. Since then,…
DLD Awareness Day
Today, 15 October 2021, is International Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day and we are pleased to release our second edition, FREE DLD Guide for people with…