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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Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties associated with persistent speech disorder in children: A prospective population study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The aim of the current study was therefore to address the current gap in the evidence to investigate the social, emotional and behavioural outcomes of children with persistent speech disorder in older childhood using data from a large prospective, population-based sample’. Yvonne Wren (pic) et al.
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Speech and Developmental Language Disorders – Judy Dunn International Conference 2022 (recordings)
Speech and Developmental Language Disorders – Judy Dunn International Conference 2022. Talks from Prof. Charles Hulme, Dr. Clare Smith, Prof. Courtenay Norbury, Prof. Julie Dockrell, Dr. Emma Hayiou Thomas, Dr. Emma James, and Baroness Shelia Hollins.
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Member Report 2021
This 4 minute video gives an overview of our achievements in 2021 and future plans.
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Speech and Developmental Language Disorders – Judy Dunn International Conference 2022
BOOKINGS CLOSED
We are delighted to release details of the upcoming Judy Dunn International Conference 2022 on Speech and Developmental Language Disorders. PLEASE NOTE BOOKINGS CLOSE TUES 15 NOVEMBER 14:00 UK TIME- Event type
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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
For this session we welcomed 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’. First published: 30 March 2021. ACAMH members can now receive a CPD certificate for watching this recorded lecture.
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Language and communication problems, and their relation to non-language difficulties – In Conversation with Dr. Hannah Hobson
In this podcast we talk to Dr. Hannah Hobson, Lecturer in Psychology and Researcher at York University, and head of the Emerald Lab (Emotional and Mental Health Research in Autism and Language Disorders).
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Delivering early language screening and intervention at scale – CAMHS around the Campfire
FREE informal journal club ‘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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- Live Stream
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The developmental origins of genetic factors influencing language and literacy: Associations with early‐childhood vocabulary – Dr. Ellen Verhoef and Dr. Beate St Pourcain
Video abstract from Dr. Ellen Verhoef and Dr. Beate St Pourcain from their JCPP paper ‘The developmental origins of genetic factors influencing language and literacy: Associations with early‐childhood vocabulary’.
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