Exploring the Views, Perspectives, and Current Practices of Educational Speech-Language Pathologists and Psychologists in Canada: How Childhood …

LMD Archibald, C Kuyvenhoven - American Journal of Speech-Language …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Across Canada, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and educational
psychologists (EPs) work in schools to identify and diagnose childhood learning difficulties …

Differences in child language assessment practices between school-based and non–school-based speech-language pathologists: Results from a nationwide survey

K Fulcher-Rood, A Castilla-Earls - … , Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare child language assessment practices of
speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working in school and nonschool settings to …

Considering the language disorder label debate from a school speech-language pathology lens

KA Murza, BJ Ehren - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this article is to situate the recent language disorder label debate
within a school's perspective. As described in two recent The ASHA Leader articles, there is …

Developmental Language Disorders: Interprofessional Collaboration Between Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists/Therapists

J Rocha, AF Santos, B Coimbra… - Closing the Educational …, 2023 - igi-global.com
Developmental language disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by
unexplained persistent language difficulties, which affects around 7.5% of school children …

Developmental Language Disorder Terminology: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' Use and Knowledge

E Steffes, LH Finestack - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a relatively new, internationally
promoted term to describe individuals with language impairments not secondary to a …

School-based speech-language pathologists' perspectives on diagnostic decision making

K Fulcher-Rood, AP Castilla-Earls… - American Journal of …, 2018 - ASHA
Purpose This study used a structured open interview approach to elicit information from
school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) regarding their assessment practices …

Consequential differences in perspectives and practices concerning children with developmental language disorders: an integrative review

AL Gallagher, CA Murphy, P Conway… - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Inter‐professional collaboration (IPC) has been recommended for many years
as a means by which the needs of children with developmental language disorders (DLD) …

Diagnostic procedures of paediatric speech and language therapists in the UK: Enabling and obstructive factors

H Harvey - International Journal of Language & Communication …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Extensive variation in the terminology used for paediatric diagnoses across the
speech and language therapy research literature is an internationally recognized problem …

Editorial Perspective: Speaking up for developmental language disorder–the top 10 priorities for research

AA Kulkarni, KE Chadd, SB Lambert… - Journal of Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
conditions, yet is chronically underserved, with far fewer children receiving clinical services …

How we fail children with developmental language disorder

KK McGregor - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose For over two decades, we have known that children with developmental language
disorder (DLD) are underserved. We have also known that DLD does not attract the …