Purpose: There has been debate about labels in relation to speech and language
impairments. However, children's views are missing from this debate, which is risky …

When children and adults in our society are perceived as having inordinate difficulty with
their speech or language, a natural reaction is to ask whether those individuals have …

Objective: Developmental disorders in childhood are generally assumed to have
stigmatizing effects. The goal of the present study was to assess whether parents of children …

Background In domains other than language, there is fairly consistent diagnostic
terminology to refer to children's developmental difficulties. For instance, the terms …

Roger Brown considered how children come to attach a word to things and categories of
things in the world. Attaching words or names to things and categories is basic to human …

A recent project entitled CATALISE used the Delphi method to reach a consensus on
terminology for unexplained language problems in children.'Developmental language …

Background In 2016–17 an important consensus was established regarding the use of the
diagnostic label 'developmental language disorder'(DLD) to describe children with a …

Children have the right to express their views and influence decisions in matters that affect
them. Yet decisions regarding speech-language pathology are often made on their behalf …

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: Given the barriers that inconsistent terminology poses for the Speech-Language
Pathology (SLP) profession, this study aimed to develop an agreed-upon taxonomy with well …