Developmental language disorder (DLD) is diagnosed when a child’s language skills are persistently below the level expected for the child’s age.
Developmental language disorders
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Have You Seen Me Lately? – Revisiting Our Understanding of Youth Mental Health
We are delighted to announce the release of the 2026 Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP) Annual Research Review ‘“Have you seen me lately” ‐ Revisiting our understanding of significant mental health disorders for children and adolescents’, edited by Daniel S. Shaw.
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Professor Maggie Snowling on rethinking reading disorders
We caught up with Prof. Maggie Snowling, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St John’s College, to discuss her career, and more.
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Speech and Developmental Language Disorders – Judy Dunn International Conference 2022
We are delighted to release details of the upcoming Judy Dunn International Conference 2022 on Speech and Developmental Language Disorders.
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- Judy Dunn International Conference
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Do autistic girls talk differently about social groups?
New data, published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, suggest that pronoun use during natural conversation might inform us about clinically meaningful social function.
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Do autistic girls have better communication and interaction skills than autistic boys?
There is ongoing debate as to whether autism spectrum disorder (ASD) differentially affects males and females. Several meta-analyses have found little difference between males and females with ASD in terms of social communication and interaction skills. However, such analyses have often relied on diagnostic instruments such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition 2 that may not be sensitive to how autism presents in females. What’s more, many have been based on global scores, that reflect overall social communication and interaction skills, which could miss subtler differences in specific domains.
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Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire
‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ welcomes Gillian West, post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Early language screening and intervention can be delivered successfully at scale: evidence from a cluster randomized controlled trial’.
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Professor Paul Ramchandani
Paul is LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at Cambridge University. He is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Paul’s research focuses on early child development, including the role of play in children’s early development and the prevention of mental health problems. He is the Practitioner Review Editor for the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Dr. Eric Fombonne
Dr. Eric Fombonne trained in child and adolescent psychiatry in France. He held appointments as clinical scientist at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM, France), as Senior Lecturer and Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital, King’s College London, UK (1993-2001), as tenured Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University (Canada), Head of the Division of Child Psychiatry and Canada Research Chair in Child Psychiatry (2001-2012).
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Developmental language disorders, young offenders, and reoffending – CAMHS around the Campfire
#CAMHScampfire welcomes Dr. Maxine Winstanley on her paper in JCPP on ‘Developmental language disorders and risk of recidivism among young offenders’.
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- Informal Journal Club
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- LIVE STREAM
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A developmental language disorder might increase the risk of reoffending
Researchers in the UK are the first to identify the potential impact of a developmental language disorder (DLD) on reoffending risk in young people. Maxine Winstanley and colleagues recruited 145 young offenders to their study.
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