Definitions
Characteristic that is within the middle range (50%) of distribution in the normal population
What is within normal limits?
Children with DLD will only repeat grammatical elements that they know.
What is sentence recall?
Children who are later born having greater risk of language difficulties.
What is birth order?
This provides the foundation for reading.
What are literacy skills?
Diagnosis for late bloomers who continue to demonstrate slow language development as they grow older.
What is late learning emergence (LLE)?
Focuses on children’s processing abilities and requires children to repeat nonsense words of varying syllable lengths and phonological complexity.
What is nonword repetition?
Males are at a higher risk.
What is gender?
Children must want to learn to read.
What is print motivation?
A variable associated with an increased risk of acquiring an illness or condition.
What is a risk factor?
Children with DLD typically perform much worse on these tasks than TD children.
What are clinical markers?
What are academic difficulties?
The understanding that words on a page are associated with spoken words and have meaning.
What is print awareness?
Individual or combined features or characteristics that distinguishes someone who has a condition from someone who does not .
What is clinical marker?
Children with DLD often have persisting difficulties learning and using grammatical forms, particularly verb forms.
What is verb tense marking?
Inability to relate how Cinderella and the prince fell in love.
What are poor narrative/story telling abilities?
Understanding that letters are different from each other and have different sounds and names.
What is letter knowledge?