Special Issue "Current Research on Developmental Language Disorders and Delays in Children"

A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Child Neurology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Katrin Neumann
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Guest Editor
Director of the Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, University Hospital Münster, Westphalian Wilhelm University, Kardinal-von Galen-Ring 10, 48149 Münster, Germany
Interests: examination of speech; language, and hearing processes with behavioral and neuroimaging techniques; implementation of newborn hearing screening; hearing screenings for people with intellectual disabilities; language screenings for children, and of neonatal CMV screenings; population medicine in communication disorders; nature and treatment of stuttering; signal analysis in voice physiology and pathology; singer´s voice; diagnostics; treatment and rehabilitation of children with language disorders and of people with hearing loss, the latter focussing on hearing aids and implants; coordination of the German evidence-based guidelines on the treatement of developmental language disorders and delay and on the pathogenesis, assessment, and treatment of speech fluency disorders

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Developmental language disorders are among the most frequently treated disorders of childhood. Neither their categorization into subtypes and their definitions and nomenclatures, nor their differentiation from related disorders are trivial, especially in the case of low non-verbal IQ. They may affect one or more of the morphological-syntactic, semantic-lexical, and phonological domains of the language system. Speech sound disorders are only partially among them. Receptive disorders have poorer prognoses than expressive ones, with pure forms of both classes existing less frequently than previously thought. Although short-term treatment success for developmental language disorders has been documented, evidence for long-term benefit is meagre. Studies tend to be characterized by small sample sizes and poorly comparable manuals. They also vary in settings, frequency, age ranges, and duration.

This Special Issue focuses on evidence-based treatments for developmental language disorders, their settings, and their medium- and long-term effects. Effective interventions also need to be extracted from the current body of studies for developmental language delays, which precede developmental language disorders, balancing parent-centered intervention methods against therapies delivered by speech-language therapists. In addition, the Special Issue aims to contribute to the current nomenclature discussion of developmental language disorders.

Prof. Dr. Katrin Neumann
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • children
  • language delay
  • developmental language disorder
  • language impairment
  • speech sound disorder
  • treatment
  • therapy
  • intervention
  • parent
  • evidence

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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