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The Study Of Children With Developmental Language Disorder Beyond English: A Tutorial, Laurence B. Leonard, Mariel L. Schroeder
The Study Of Children With Developmental Language Disorder Beyond English: A Tutorial, Laurence B. Leonard, Mariel L. Schroeder
Purdue Center for Early Learning Faculty and Staff Publications
The main goal of this tutorial is to promote the study of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across different languages of the world. The cumulative effect of these efforts is likely to be a set of more compelling and comprehensive theories of language learning difficulties and, possibly, of language acquisition in general. Benefits to children and local societies are also likely to accrue. After presenting some of the initial considerations involved in the cross-linguistic study of children with language disorders, we provide examples of the types of questions that might be asked. The examples are informed by our own …