module 11

Question 1

DLD( Developmental language disorder)

Answer 1

-difficulties with everyday life and communication
- receptive and expressive abilities impacted
-persistent throughout devleopment

Question 2

causes DLD

Answer 2

combo of family history/genetics, environmental, other developemental disorders
-not caused by biomedical condition or developmental disorder

Question 3

dld affected language areas

Answer 3

-phonological awarenss (phoneme blending or manipulation, future reading difficulties) NOT Speech sound disorder
-morphology and syntax (sequential ordering of utterances and comprehension, grammaticality judgements, differentiating grammatical forms)
-semantics (word finding, production, comprehension -> word level, word combo, sentence level, passage level)
-discourse and pragmatics (contextual and social cues, figurative language, intonation, stress)
- verbal memory (STM -> word and speech-sound recall, word to meaning mappings, speech-sounds and morpho-syntaactic patterns) NOT hearing and auditory processing, or language proficiency/familiarity

Question 4

DLD affects people aournd the world regardless of

Answer 4

age, gender, language spoken, ethnicity

Question 5

what does not cause dld

Answer 5

speaking more than one language

Question 6

people with dld can learn

Answer 6

multiple language

Question 7

dld is about

Answer 7

how the brain processes language, not about the accent or languages spoken

Question 8

what to consider when studying DLD in non mainstream dialects of english speaken childrne

Answer 8

Language sampling (child observations, parent questionnaires, & parent interview re child
language background, in-the-field community professionals)
o Acceptable versus unacceptable forms in the dialect
o Timeline for development of grammatical forms across typically-developing speakers of a
dialect
o Dialect-specific morpho-syntactic rules