Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day – 10.20.23

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What is developmental language disorder (DLD)?  https://dldandme.org/

Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder: https://radld.org/

US Department of Education guidance on using DLD: https://www.asha.org/siteassets/advocacy/comments/OSEP-Response-Letter-to-ASHA-on-DLD-5.30.23.pdf

ASHA Leader article about using the term DLD in schools: https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/2023-0911-slp-dld-advocacy/full/

DLD information from the National Institutes of Health: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/developmental-language-disorder

Information about DLD Light it Up Events: https://radld.org/dld-awareness-day/light-up-events/

ASHA Voices podcast with Tiffany Hogan, Karla McGregor, Kelly Farquharson: https://open.spotify.com/show/3rL2giRM22PfxH4KtAAhQg

How we fail children with DLD (McGregor, 2020): https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00003

Fewer than half of children with DLD are identified for school-based support services (Norbury et al., 2016): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27184709/