Developmental Language Disorder
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulty showing typical language development when there are no obvious accompanying causative conditions such as intellectual disability, neurological damage, hearing impairment or serious emotional disorders. They may have difficulties in following complex directions, organized thoughts in sentences and reporting events.
Possible Signs
- Difficult to comprehend complex commands, questions or stories
- Difficult to express personal opinions and feelings
- Difficult to express thoughts in correct word order and syntactically correct sentences
- Struggle in word finding difficulty
- Difficult to read and write written language