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Developmental language disorder, the Glossary

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is identified when a child has problems with language development that continue into school age and beyond.^[1]

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Aphasias
Developmental disabilities
Language disorders

Aphasia

In aphasia (sometimes called dysphasia), a person may be unable to comprehend or unable to formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. Developmental language disorder and aphasia are aphasias, communication disorders and language disorders.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.

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Auditory processing disorder

Auditory processing disorder (APD), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome or auditory disability with normal hearing (ADN), is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. Developmental language disorder and auditory processing disorder are communication disorders.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Brain injury

Brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.

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Cerebral cortex

The cerebral cortex, also known as the cerebral mantle, is the outer layer of neural tissue of the cerebrum of the brain in humans and other mammals.

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Child

A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.

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Chromosome abnormality

A chromosomal abnormality, chromosomal anomaly, chromosomal aberration, chromosomal mutation, or chromosomal disorder is a missing, extra, or irregular portion of chromosomal DNA.

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Cleft lip and cleft palate

A cleft lip contains an opening in the upper lip that may extend into the nose.

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Cohort (statistics)

In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation).

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Developmental coordination disorder

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as developmental motor coordination disorder, developmental dyspraxia or simply dyspraxia (from Ancient Greek praxis 'activity'), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired coordination of physical movements as a result of brain messages not being accurately transmitted to the body.

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Discourse

Discourse is a generalization of the notion of a conversation to any form of communication.

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Discrepancy

Discrepancy may refer to.

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Down syndrome

Down syndrome (United States) or Down's syndrome (United Kingdom and other English-speaking nations), also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21.

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DSM-5

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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Dysarthria

Dysarthria is a speech sound disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor–speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes. Developmental language disorder and Dysarthria are communication disorders.

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Dyslexia

Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that affects either reading or writing.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

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Fine motor skill

Fine motor skill (or dexterity) is the coordination of small muscles in movement with the eyes, hands and fingers.

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FOXP2

Forkhead box protein P2 (FOXP2) is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the FOXP2 gene. Developmental language disorder and FOXP2 are speech and language pathology.

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Genetic disorder

A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome.

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Grammar

In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.

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Gross motor skill

Gross motor skills are the abilities usually acquired during childhood as part of a child's motor learning.

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Gyrus

In neuroanatomy, a gyrus (gyri) is a ridge on the cerebral cortex.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss is a partial or total inability to hear. Developmental language disorder and Hearing loss are communication disorders.

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Homogeneity and heterogeneity

Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.

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ICD-11

The ICD-11 is the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

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Intellectual disability

Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub. Developmental language disorder and Intellectual disability are developmental disabilities.

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Intelligence

Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

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Language assessment

Language assessment or language testing is a field of study under the umbrella of applied linguistics.

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Language delay

A language delay is a language disorder in which a child fails to develop language abilities at the usual age-appropriate period in their developmental timetable. Developmental language disorder and language delay are communication disorders, language disorders and speech and language pathology.

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Language development

Language development in humans is a process which starts early in life.

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Language disorder

Language disorders or language impairments are disorders that involve the processing of linguistic information. Developmental language disorder and language disorder are communication disorders, language disorders and speech and language pathology.

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Language processing in the brain

In psycholinguistics, language processing refers to the way humans use words to communicate ideas and feelings, and how such communications are processed and understood.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Lisp

A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants. These misarticulations often result in unclear speech in languages with phonemic sibilants.

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Longitudinal study

A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data).

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Motor skill

A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task.

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National Child Development Study

The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958.

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Neurodevelopmental disorder

Neurodevelopmental disorders are a group of conditions that begin to emerge during childhood (or the development of the nervous system).

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Origin of speech

The origin of speech differs from the origin of language because language is not necessarily spoken; it could equally be written or signed.

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Phonological awareness

Phonological awareness is an individual's awareness of the phonological structure, or sound structure, of words.

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Phonology

Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Possessive

A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated or; from possessivus; translit) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession in a broad sense.

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Pragmatics

In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning.

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Prevalence

In epidemiology, prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition (typically a disease or a risk factor such as smoking or seatbelt use) at a specific time.

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Randomized controlled trial

A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial; RCT) is a form of scientific experiment used to control factors not under direct experimental control.

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Schizoaffective disorder

Schizoaffective disorder (SZA, SZD) is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.

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Schizotypal personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder (StPD or SPD), also known as schizotypal disorder, is a cluster A personality disorder.

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Scientific control

A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables).

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Selective mutism

Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serving as triggers.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

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Sensorineural hearing loss

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a type of hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the inner ear, sensory organ (cochlea and associated structures), or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII).

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Sex ratio

A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.

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Social (pragmatic) communication disorder (SPCD), also known as pragmatic language impairment (PLI), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication. Developmental language disorder and social (pragmatic) communication disorder are communication disorders and language disorders.

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Specific language impairment

Specific language impairment (SLI) (the term developmental language disorder is preferred by some) is diagnosed when a child's language does not develop normally and the difficulties cannot be accounted for by generally slow development, physical abnormality of the speech apparatus, autism spectrum disorder, apraxia, acquired brain damage or hearing loss. Developmental language disorder and Specific language impairment are aphasias, communication disorders, developmental disabilities, language disorders and speech and language pathology.

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Speech

Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language.

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Speech disorder

Speech disorders, impairments, or impediments, are a type of communication disorder in which normal speech is disrupted.

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Speech sound disorder

A speech sound disorder (SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds (phonemes) not being produced or used correctly. Developmental language disorder and speech sound disorder are communication disorders, language disorders and speech and language pathology.

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Speech–language pathology

Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication difficulties, as well as swallowing disorders across the lifespan. Developmental language disorder and Speech–language pathology are speech and language pathology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_language_disorder

Also known as Language development disorders.

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Developmental language disorder, the Glossary

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Aphasias

Developmental disabilities

Language disorders

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