Thrilled that the Times Educational Supplement (TES) published our article about Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) on #DLDday . DLD affects 2 children in every class of 30, yet is so often missed. Teachers can make simple adaptations that cost no time or money but really help children with DLD.
If you have any involvement with children or education, please have a read:
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/helping-pupils-developmental-language-disorder
#DevLangDis#Pseudoscience
Pink, Pinker, Pinkest.
The Beastlier Angles of Our Nature
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Clever stuff.
"How to Steer Clear of Illegitimate Treatments for DLD"
I wrote a little article for parents about time-wasting, money-wasting, opportunity-wasting, hope-wasting "interventions" for Developmental Language Disorder for #DLDandME It's here:
https://dldandme.org/how-to-steer-clear-of-illegitimate-treatments-for-dld/
It includes tips to help families, and people with DLD to avoid practices that lack evidence of effectiveness.
🐝 As usual, I have a bee in my bonnet about #Pseudoscience.
Still looking for a PhD? Consider applying to this one in my lab - focus on #learning and #motivation in #DevLangDis and autistic children. Deadline: 15th Jan 2023, only Home fees are included
https://royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/psychology/studying-here/research-degrees/phd-studentship-in-developmental-language-disorder/
New study reports on the language gains of a cohort of 154 children with #DevLangDis (4–6 years old), in a special education setting for children with language disorders. The sample included children with receptive–expressive disorders and expressive-only disorders, and monolingual as well as multilingual children. The results suggested that children's language skills improved. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1460-6984.12821
One main message of the 1-hour documentary, #BlameItOnGutenberg", is that humans are biologically wired for ORAL language, not written language. Written language must be learned through instruction, and when there is a genetic, neurological glitch, this language learning modality (written language: reading and writing) requires appropriate intervention, intervention that many schools fail to provide. https://blameitongutenberg.org/
#SLP_SLT #SLP #DevLangDis #dyslexia @slp_slt @slpfedi @devlangdis
Brilliant opportunity to raise awareness of #devlangdis 🐦: https://twitter.com/radldcam/status/1600064484332433408?s=46&t=GzZTiWfun8C6dauX1yBvCw
New #SystematicReview suggests that less efficient early auditory processing is a shared mechanism underlying both #LearningDisorders and #DevLangDis #DLD #heterogeneity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20438-7
#introducton: Hi, I am in my final year of my PhD at the University of Birmingham and I am part of the Language and Cognition lab led by Professor Ewa Dabrowksa. My research investigates #DevLangDis in children and adults.
Hello 👋🏽 I've switched servers so am starting again (still figuring out how to use Mastodon!) I'll be chatting mainly about #SpeechandLanguageTherapy #DevelopmentalLanguageDisorder
#devlangdis #ThinkLanguage #ThinkDLD #SLCNsuccess #AntiRacism #Equality #Equity #diversity #Inclusion #CompassionateLeadership #NHS #innovation
New paper “late bloomers or language disorder…”. Children who received a #DevLangDis diagnosis between 4 and 7 yrs said a significantly smaller proportion of shape‐based nouns in year 2 than typically developing children and children with other diagnoses (e.g., #dyslexia). The study links to heterogeneity amongst late talkers and offers a new metric for assessing risk https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/desc.13342 #DLD
New Developmental Language Disorder diagnosis modules are now online from #NAPLIC. Designed for professionals as a tool to reflect upon and change practice. Check them out! #DevLangDis
https://www.naplic.org.uk/diagnosing-dld-online-learning/
Pleased to have our elife paper showing striatal differences in #devlangdis covered by the Naked Scientists podcast: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/brain-structure-and-speech-impairments
Thanks @borovsky for setting up.the @devlangdis so all of us interested in #DevLangDis and other things #SLT #SLP #SLCN can find each other more easily in this new world!!
QUITE INTERESTING
Currently, a Mastodon search can only be done for usernames (user URLs) or hashtags (e.g,, #DevLangDis). Apparently, a more powerful search tool will be available quite soon. #QuiteInteresting
New study: Raising a child bilingually does not exacerbate linguistic and cognitive difficulties in children with #DevLangDis. However, preliminary data suggest it does not lead to cognitive advantages in working memory either https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/4/287/htm
Useful new paper on: (a) what is known about how inner speech affects executive function performance in typical populations and children with #DevLangDis and (b) highlighting potential implications for clinical practice and directions for future research https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00042
Empirical outcomes from new eye tracking study suggest that number morphology comprehension by children with #DevLangDis might be more typical than what it is generally considered to be. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00591 #DLD
