DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDER (DLD) - LANGUAGE DELAY
What is a language delay?
Language delay can co-occur with...
How common is a language delay?
DLD or a language delay is a specific disorder learning language: including issues with comprehension, listening, expression, making sentences and using language.
How common is a language delay?
Language delay can co-occur with...
How common is a language delay?
A language delay currently affects 1 in 14 children or 2 children in every classroom
Did you know that?
Language delay can co-occur with...
Language delay can co-occur with...
Children with language delay are 6 times more likely to have reading difficulties.
Language delay can co-occur with...
Language delay can co-occur with...
Language delay can co-occur with...
ASD, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, intellectual disability and learning difficulties.
a language delay or difficulty learning a Second Language?
When children are learning another language or additional languages, it can be normal for them to have difficulty:
- learning grammatical structures and rules
- issues accurately using and/or comprehending vocabulary in their second or third language
However, if a child has met all their age-appropriate communication milestones for their given age in their first language or their mother tongue, then they are having difficulty learning a second language and a language delay or disorder is not present.
If a child has difficulty with comprehension and/or expression in both or all of their spoken languages, then a language delay is present and they would benefit from therapy in their mother tongue or in English, to address their language delay or disorder.
