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Developmental language disorder

MedGen UID:
6010
•Concept ID:
C0023014
•
Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
Synonyms: Development Disorder, Language; Developmental Disorder, Speech or Language; Developmental Language Disorder; Developmental Language Disorders; Disorder, Language Development; Disorders, Language Development; Language Development Disorder; Language Development Disorders; Language Disorder, Developmental; Language Disorders, Developmental; Speech or Language, Developmental Disorder
SNOMED CT: Developmental language disorder (280032002)

Definition

Conditions characterized by language abilities (comprehension and expression of speech and writing) that are below the expected level for a given age, generally in the absence of an intellectual impairment. These conditions may be associated with DEAFNESS; BRAIN DISEASES; MENTAL DISORDERS; or environmental factors. [from MeSH]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVDevelopmental language disorder

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Treatment intensity for developmental language disorder: A systematic review.
Segura-Pujol H, Briones-Rojas C
Int J Speech Lang Pathol 2021 Oct;23(5):465-474. Epub 2021 Feb 1 doi: 10.1080/17549507.2020.1856412. PMID: 33522291
Data-Informed Guideposts for Decision Making in Enhanced Conversational Recast Treatment.
Hall J, Plante E
Am J Speech Lang Pathol 2020 Nov 12;29(4):2068-2081. Epub 2020 Sep 22 doi: 10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00017. PMID: 32960647Free PMC Article
Screening school-age children for developmental language disorder in primary care.
Ebert KD, Ochoa-Lubinoff C, Holmes MP
Int J Speech Lang Pathol 2020 Apr;22(2):152-162. Epub 2019 Jul 1 doi: 10.1080/17549507.2019.1632931. PMID: 31262202Free PMC Article

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Association of Developmental Language Disorder With Comorbid Developmental Conditions Using Algorithmic Phenotyping.
Nitin R, Shaw DM, Rocha DB, Walters CE Jr, Chabris CF, Camarata SM, Gordon RL, Below JE
JAMA Netw Open 2022 Dec 1;5(12):e2248060. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.48060. PMID: 36580336Free PMC Article
The Reliability of Short Conversational Language Sample Measures in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.
Wilder A, Redmond SM
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2022 May 11;65(5):1939-1955. Epub 2022 Apr 8 doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00628. PMID: 35394820Free PMC Article
Vowel Accuracy and Segmental Variability Differentiate Children With Developmental Language Disorder in Nonword Repetition.
Vuolo J, Goffman L
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2020 Dec 14;63(12):3945-3960. Epub 2020 Nov 17 doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00166. PMID: 33201753Free PMC Article
How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder.
McGregor KK
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2020 Oct 2;51(4):981-992. Epub 2020 Aug 5 doi: 10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00003. PMID: 32755505Free PMC Article
Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology.
Bishop DVM, Snowling MJ, Thompson PA, Greenhalgh T; and the CATALISE-2 consortium
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2017 Oct;58(10):1068-1080. Epub 2017 Mar 30 doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12721. PMID: 28369935Free PMC Article

Diagnosis

Language intervention in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review.
Kk Nair V, Clark GT, Siyambalapitiya S, Reuterskiöld C
Int J Lang Commun Disord 2023 Mar;58(2):576-600. Epub 2022 Nov 25 doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12803. PMID: 36428270
Language disorders.
Paul R
Handb Clin Neurol 2020;174:21-35. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-64148-9.00002-8. PMID: 32977879
How We Fail Children With Developmental Language Disorder.
McGregor KK
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2020 Oct 2;51(4):981-992. Epub 2020 Aug 5 doi: 10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00003. PMID: 32755505Free PMC Article
Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology.
Bishop DVM, Snowling MJ, Thompson PA, Greenhalgh T; and the CATALISE-2 consortium
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2017 Oct;58(10):1068-1080. Epub 2017 Mar 30 doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12721. PMID: 28369935Free PMC Article
Developmental dyscalculia.
Shalev RS
J Child Neurol 2004 Oct;19(10):765-71. doi: 10.1177/08830738040190100601. PMID: 15559892

Therapy

Friendship interventions for children with neurodevelopmental needs: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Cordier R, Parsons L, Wilkes-Gillan S, Cook M, McCloskey-Martinez M, Graham P, Littlefair D, Kent C, Speyer R
PLoS One 2023;18(12):e0295917. Epub 2023 Dec 14 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295917. PMID: 38096327Free PMC Article
Implicit manual and oculomotor sequence learning in developmental language disorder.
Lum JAG, Clark GM
Dev Sci 2022 Mar;25(2):e13156. Epub 2021 Jul 21 doi: 10.1111/desc.13156. PMID: 34240500
The Impact of Intervention Dose Form on Oral Language Outcomes for Children With Developmental Language Disorder.
Frizelle P, Tolonen AK, Tulip J, Murphy CA, Saldana D, McKean C
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2021 Aug 9;64(8):3253-3288. Epub 2021 Jul 1 doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00734. PMID: 34213951
Association of Parent Training With Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Roberts MY, Curtis PR, Sone BJ, Hampton LH
JAMA Pediatr 2019 Jul 1;173(7):671-680. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.1197. PMID: 31107508Free PMC Article
Brain asymmetries in autism and developmental language disorder: a nested whole-brain analysis.
Herbert MR, Ziegler DA, Deutsch CK, O'Brien LM, Kennedy DN, Filipek PA, Bakardjiev AI, Hodgson J, Takeoka M, Makris N, Caviness VS Jr
Brain 2005 Jan;128(Pt 1):213-26. Epub 2004 Nov 24 doi: 10.1093/brain/awh330. PMID: 15563515

Prognosis

Not All Procedural Learning Tasks Are Difficult for Adults With Developmental Language Disorder.
Gerken L, Plante E, Goffman L
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2021 Mar 17;64(3):922-934. Epub 2021 Feb 16 doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00548. PMID: 33592156Free PMC Article
Bilingualism and Processing Speed in Typically Developing Children and Children With Developmental Language Disorder.
Park JS, Miller CA, Sanjeevan T, van Hell JG, Weiss DJ, Mainela-Arnold E
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2020 May 22;63(5):1479-1493. Epub 2020 May 7 doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00403. PMID: 32379528
Dismantling the "Visual Ease Assumption:" A Review of Visual Narrative Processing in Clinical Populations.
Coderre EL
Top Cogn Sci 2020 Jan;12(1):224-255. Epub 2019 Aug 1 doi: 10.1111/tops.12446. PMID: 31373182
Structural Relationship Between Cognitive Processing and Syntactic Sentence Comprehension in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.
Montgomery JW, Evans JL, Fargo JD, Schwartz S, Gillam RB
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2018 Dec 10;61(12):2950-2976. doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0421. PMID: 30398612Free PMC Article
Phase 2 of CATALISE: a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study of problems with language development: Terminology.
Bishop DVM, Snowling MJ, Thompson PA, Greenhalgh T; and the CATALISE-2 consortium
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2017 Oct;58(10):1068-1080. Epub 2017 Mar 30 doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12721. PMID: 28369935Free PMC Article

Clinical prediction guides

Acoustic and Kinematic Methods of Indexing Spatiotemporal Stability in Children With Developmental Language Disorder.
Benham S, Wisler A, Berlin J, Wang J, Goffman L
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2023 Aug 17;66(8S):3026-3037. Epub 2023 Jan 19 doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00290. PMID: 36657083Free PMC Article
English BESA Morphosyntax Performance Among Spanish-English Bilinguals Who Use African American English.
Gatlin-Nash B, Peña ED, Bedore LM, Simon-Cereijido G, Iglesias A
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2021 Oct 4;64(10):3826-3842. Epub 2021 Sep 14 doi: 10.1044/2021_JSLHR-20-00737. PMID: 34520218Free PMC Article
Not All Procedural Learning Tasks Are Difficult for Adults With Developmental Language Disorder.
Gerken L, Plante E, Goffman L
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2021 Mar 17;64(3):922-934. Epub 2021 Feb 16 doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00548. PMID: 33592156Free PMC Article
Association of Parent Training With Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Roberts MY, Curtis PR, Sone BJ, Hampton LH
JAMA Pediatr 2019 Jul 1;173(7):671-680. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.1197. PMID: 31107508Free PMC Article
Structural Relationship Between Cognitive Processing and Syntactic Sentence Comprehension in Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.
Montgomery JW, Evans JL, Fargo JD, Schwartz S, Gillam RB
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2018 Dec 10;61(12):2950-2976. doi: 10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-17-0421. PMID: 30398612Free PMC Article

Recent systematic reviews

Language intervention in bilingual children with developmental language disorder: A systematic review.
Kk Nair V, Clark GT, Siyambalapitiya S, Reuterskiöld C
Int J Lang Commun Disord 2023 Mar;58(2):576-600. Epub 2022 Nov 25 doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12803. PMID: 36428270
Speech-Language Pathology Interventions for Children With Executive Function Deficits: A Systematic Literature Review.
Senter R, Chow JC, Willis EC
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch 2023 Jan 17;54(1):336-354. Epub 2022 Oct 28 doi: 10.1044/2022_LSHSS-22-00013. PMID: 36306507
Investigating Narrative Performance in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Winters KL, Jasso J, Pustejovsky JE, Byrd CT
J Speech Lang Hear Res 2022 Oct 17;65(10):3908-3929. Epub 2022 Sep 30 doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00017. PMID: 36179252
What Are the Peer Interaction Strengths and Difficulties in Children with Developmental Language Disorder? A Systematic Review.
Lloyd-Esenkaya V, Russell AJ, Clair MCS
Int J Environ Res Public Health 2020 Apr 30;17(9) doi: 10.3390/ijerph17093140. PMID: 32365958Free PMC Article
Association of Parent Training With Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Roberts MY, Curtis PR, Sone BJ, Hampton LH
JAMA Pediatr 2019 Jul 1;173(7):671-680. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.1197. PMID: 31107508Free PMC Article

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