Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are
slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD) …

The influences at play in service delivery decision-making and implementation can be
conceptualised as operating at multiple levels: macro, relating to service policy and …

Twenty-five years on and we are much more aware of language impairments in children.
Academics from a variety of disciplines are busily studying conditions such as specific …

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 …

Background The relationship between parental input and child language development has
had a complex history. It has become clear that indirect parent training for the parents of …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
conditions, yet is chronically underserved, with far fewer children receiving clinical services …

Many children who have communication delays or impairments show difficulty in the domain
of pragmatics—the understanding of how language is used in social contexts. When …

Background There is no agreed terminology for describing childhood language problems. In
this special issue Reilly et al. and Bishop review the history of the most widely used …

Purpose In this article, the author presents a conceptual framework for intervention at school-
age levels reflecting upon a number of aspects raised by Kamhi (2014) in the lead article of …

The identification of developmental problems in a child's acquisition of speech, language
and/or communication is a core activity in child surveillance. These are common difficulties …