Article: Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is the term used when a person has difficulty with talking and/or understanding language, and for which there is no known cause. DLD starts in childhood and affects all languages spoken.

Surprisingly for a developmental difference which relates to language, until recently there was no agreed terminology to accurately describe DLD. This confusion has resulted in DLD being unrecognised and misunderstood. International consensus was agreed in 2016, but still most people do not know about DLD. Every year RADLD (Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder) hold an annual worldwide day in October. Each year there is a different theme to promote and raise awareness of DLD to a wide range of stakeholders, this year the day fell on Friday 18 October with the theme to ‘Speak Up for DLD’.

The theme has allowed us the opportunity to write this article and raise awareness with the members of CIEA who accredit language modifiers. Read the full article here >>>