What is Developmental Language Disorder

Children with Developmental Language Disorders are usually as able and healthy as other children in all ways, with one exception; they have enormous difficulty talking and understanding language. Children with Developmental Language Disorders often have specific and individual needs.

They may:

• Have difficulty saying what they want to, even though they have ideas

• Talk in sentences but be difficult to understand

• Sound muddled; it can be difficult to follow what they are saying

• Find it difficult to understand words and long instructions

• Have difficulty remembering the words they want to say

• Find it hard to join in and follow what is going on in the playground

• Find it difficult for concentrate for similar lengths of time to their peers

• Find social interaction challenging

• Have difficulty with keeping still and are often fidgety or restless - they find it hard to sit still and be calm

• Have low levels of confidence and can get anxious or upset easily

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