Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects approximately one in 14 kindergarten-age children, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. This is a statistic Lisa Goffman, a bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s and doctoral alumna from the Purdue University Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS), is seeking to better understand through research in language, speech, and motor development and disorders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":43242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,255,14],"tags":[1923,1928,1929,263,350,1452,744,1927,240],"class_list":["post-43241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-alumni-awards","tag-boys-town-national-research-hospital","tag-center-for-childhood-deafness-language-and-learning","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-developmental-language-disorder","tag-hhs-distinguished-alumni-award","tag-lisa-goffman","tag-purdue-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n