Marshall, Chloe;
(2024)
Developmental Language Disorder.
In: Frank, Michael and Majid, Asifa, (eds.)
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, United States.
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Abstract
Developmental language disorder is diagnosed in the approximately 8% children who would be expected to acquire their first language(s) readily—given their seemingly age-appropriate rate of development in other cognitive domains and their receipt of sufficiently rich language input—but who nevertheless do not reach key language milestones at the expected ages. These children are often delayed in producing their first words and then in combining words into sentences. Their difficulties with both producing and understanding language can continue into adolescence and even adulthood, impacting academic achievement and employment opportunities. The characteristics and underlying causes of developmental language disorder have been the subject of intense research activity across different languages and modalities (i.e., spoken, signed, and written). Although there are good descriptions of the linguistic characteristics of developmental language disorder, for some languages at least, its underlying causes remain poorly understood.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Developmental Language Disorder |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.21428/e2759450.1d3e0934 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.1d3e0934 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200780 |
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