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  • Re: Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day

    From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 18 11:55:08 2024
    Ar an t-ochtú lá déag de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:

    Let's see...DLD is language difficulty (speaking and understanding, relative to
    age) which is _not_ a concomitant of some other difficulty (e.g. hearing loss,
    autism spectrum disorder).

    Crystal relates that it has long been recognized by speech/language therapists
    and the like, but not until 2016 did they get together and agree on a standard
    name for it. To them we owe this day.

    So it's a thing, it has a name, but given the negative definition above, one wonders whether they have made a good case that it is just one thing.

    No, they haven’t, it’s certainly multiple things.

    By the listed definitions childhood lisps and stammers qualify, which are very different clinical entities from mutism without other evident developmental disorders, which also qualifies.

    Back when I engaged with 23andme I was advised my genetics suggest I have a slight disadvantage in motor skill compared to the norm, and indeed my proprioception for my tongue position didn’t really develop until my 30s, which
    was awkward in studying linguistics at 18 and 19. No real speech problems, but a stronger version of this disadvantage would also qualify; in any event what the speech and language therapists do is the appropriate management, so no harm from this inaccuracy.

    There's more on it out there:

    https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Documents/health/voice/developmental-language-disorder.pdf

    https://www.deb.co.nz/dyslexia/getting-started/what-is-developmental-language-disorder-dld/

    https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/resource-library-for-educators/developmental-language-disorder-dld/


    I seem to remember from years ago that DLD played a role in arguments about the
    evolution of language, since it was claimed to be associated with the presence
    or absence of a particular gene. Don't know whether this is still taken seriously.

    --
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    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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  • From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 18 23:29:41 2024
    Let's see...DLD is language difficulty (speaking and understanding,
    relative to age) which is _not_ a concomitant of some other difficulty
    (e.g. hearing loss, autism spectrum disorder).

    Crystal relates that it has long been recognized by speech/language
    therapists and the like, but not until 2016 did they get together and
    agree on a standard name for it. To them we owe this day.

    So it's a thing, it has a name, but given the negative definition above,
    one wonders whether they have made a good case that it is just one thing.

    There's more on it out there:

    https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Documents/health/voice/developmental-language-disorder.pdf

    https://www.deb.co.nz/dyslexia/getting-started/what-is-developmental-language-disorder-dld/

    https://speechandlanguage.org.uk/educators-and-professionals/resource-library-for-educators/developmental-language-disorder-dld/


    I seem to remember from years ago that DLD played a role in arguments
    about the evolution of language, since it was claimed to be associated
    with the presence or absence of a particular gene. Don't know whether
    this is still taken seriously.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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