Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in the United States, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.<\/p>\n
Laurence Leonard, Rachel E. Stark Distinguished Professor in the Purdue University Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS), and Patricia Deevy, SLHS research associate, have been building momentum to understand children with DLD for decades. Recently, alongside College of Health and Human Sciences (HHS) graduate student Mariel Schroeder, the team has made strides in understanding word learning for this group of children through shared book reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44743,"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":[19,14],"tags":[2345,263,1161,387,350,1452,1719,1447,2254,1448,240,1949,1444],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-american-speech-language-hearing-association","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-department-of-psychological-sciences","tag-department-of-speech-language-and-hearing-sciences","tag-developmental-language-disorder","tag-jeffrey-karpicke","tag-laurence-leonard","tag-mariel-schroeder","tag-patricia-deevy","tag-purdue-university","tag-sharon-christ","tag-summer-fun"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n