By understanding how language structures vary and can influence one another, an SLP can make a more informed decision when determining whether a bilingual child is presenting with a language difference or a language disorder. Add a Bonus! Want the Difference or Disorder book...
If the child with a language delay or disorder is being asked to take a second language at high school to fulfill academic requirements, and has little to no interest in actually participating (which a lot of kids do anyway, unfortunately!!), then we might have to reassess the situation an...
Research on children with other NDDs (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorder; ASD) has also identified emotion dysregulation’s role in explaining the manifestation of anxiety (e.g. [19]). Amongst these children, however, this relationship has been explained through their unique socio-cognitive characterist...
Cueing hierarchyTreatment techniqueLanguage disorderAnomic aphasiaBackground: Stroke and degenerative disease are the cause of anomic aphasia. In this condition, expressive language is affected. Cueing hierarchy (CH) is one of the treatment approaches used to improve the expressive language of naming or...
If LENA shows high error in a sample where children are at risk for delay and/or disorder under conditions where adults are expected to be speaking at least as – if not more – clearly than they would speak to typically developing children or adults, then this would be important ...
who can examine additional factors that influence communication skills and help differentiate between a communication disorder and a language difference. These factors would include home language use and dialect, dual versus second language learning, non-verbal communication, etc. [26]. Additionally, moni...
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) are developmental disorders with distinct diagnostic criteria and different epidemiology. However, a common genetic background as well as overlapping clinical features between ASD and CAS have been recently reported. To date, brain ...
subordination in Turkish; Turkish as heritage language; developmental language disorder; heritage bilingual children 1. Introduction Developmental language disorder (DLD) is the term recommended by the international CATALISE consortium (Bishop et al. 2016, 2017) to replace specific language impairment (...
1. Introduction Autism is a heterogeneous disorder. Persons on the mild side of the spectrum may face various social challenges but typically have normal voluntary imagination. Conversely, individuals with moderate to severe autism spectrum disorder (ASD) usually manifest a range of deficits related ...