ReviewBrain sciences2021
Efficacy of the Treatment of Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Vocabulary interventions for children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of auditory training on children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
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- Language, Speech, and Oral Motor Performance in Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Systematic Review.International journal of language & communication disordersPooled it
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- Association Between COVID-19 Exposure Duration on Receptive and Expressive Language Development in Preschool Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- ADHD comorbidity in preschoolers with developmental language disorder: comparative neurodevelopmental profiles and associated risk factors.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- When the Past Is Backward and the Future Is Forward: An Embodied Cognition Intervention in Preschoolers with Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Word Reading and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children With Developmental Language Disorder.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Article
- Early medical risks to language development in extremely preterm infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Validation and normative data for a new dynamic instrument evaluating phonological processing skills in Italian first-grade students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Cognitive vs. Linguistic Training in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Exploring Their Effectiveness on Verbal Short-Term Memory and Verbal Working Memory.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Implementation of the Infant-Toddler Checklist in Swedish child health services at 18 months: an observational study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2024Observational
- The competition-compensation account of developmental language disorder.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Editorial: Advances in the cross-cultural assessment and diagnosis of developmental conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Prediction Cannot Be Directly Trained: An Extension to Jones and Westermann (2021).Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Do Spoken Vocabulary and Gestural Production Distinguish Children with Transient Language Delay from Children Who Will Show Developmental Language Disorder? A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundLanguage disorder is the most frequent developmental disorder in childhood and it has a significant negative impact on children's development. The goal of the present review was to systematically analyze the effectiveness of interventions in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) from an evidence-based perspective.
methodsWe considered systematic reviews, meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), control group cohort studies on any type of intervention aimed at improving children's skills in the phono-articulatory, phonological, semantic-lexical, and morpho-syntactic fields in preschool and primary school children (up to eight years of age) that were diagnosed with DLD. We identified 27 full-length studies, 26 RCT and one review.
resultsEarly intensive intervention in three- and four-year-old children has a positive effect on phonological expressive and receptive skills and acquisitions are maintained in the medium term. Less evidence is available on the treatment of expressive vocabulary (and no evidence on receptive vocabulary). Intervention on morphological and syntactic skills has effective results on expressive (but not receptive) skills; however, a number of inconsistent results have also been reported. Only one study reports a positive effect of treatment on inferential narrative skills. Limited evidence is also available on the treatment of meta-phonological skills. More studies investigated the effectiveness of interventions on general language skills, which now appears as a promising area of investigation, even though results are not all consistent.
conclusionsThe effectiveness of interventions over expressive and receptive phonological skills, morpho-syntactic skills, as well as inferential skills in narrative context underscores the importance that these trainings be implemented in children with DLD.
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