Written Language Production in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Ανδρέου, Γεωργία; Aslanoglou, Vasiliki

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.833429

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“…Although we aimed to recruit as many participants as possible, the final sample consisted of 52 children (26 with DLD and 26 TD children). This sample size aligns with prior studies on English (e.g., Mackie et al, 2013;Dockrell et al, 2014;Andreou and Aslanoglou, 2022;Brimo et al, 2023) and Spanish (Soriano-Ferrer and Contreras-González, 2012;Buil-Legaz et al, 2023) writing abilities in children with DLD. However, our study included participants ranging in age from 7;11 to 15;8 years, representing a diverse range of ages.…”

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Exploring Spanish writing abilities of children with developmental language disorder in expository texts

Balboa-Castells,

Ahufinger,

Sanz-Torrent

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionNumerous studies have shown that children with developmental language disorder (DLD), in addition to oral language difficulties, exhibit impaired writing abilities. Their texts contain problems in grammar, organization, cohesion, and length of written output. However, most of these studies have been conducted with English speakers. English is characterized by complex phonological structure, opaque orthography, poor morphology and strict word order. The aim of this research is to observe the writing abilities of children with DLD in a language with simple phonological structure, transparent orthography, rich morphology and flexible word order like Spanish in the production of expository texts.MethodsTwenty-six children with DLD (mean age in months = 128.85) and 26 age-and sex-matched typically developing (TD) children (mean age in months = 124.61) wrote an expository text about their favorite animal.ResultsIn order to analyze how the two groups plan and encode written texts, we looked at word frequency and sentence structure, grammatical complexity and lexical density, and omissions and errors. Compared to the TD group, the children with DLD omitted more content words; made more errors with functional words, verb conjugation and inflectional morphemes, and made a large number of spelling errors. Moreover, they wrote fewer words, fewer sentences, and less structurally and lexically complex texts.DiscussionThese results show that children with DLD who speak a transparent orthography language such as Spanish also have difficulties in most language areas when producing written texts. Our findings should be considered when planning and designing interventions.

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Exploring Spanish writing abilities of children with developmental language disorder in expository texts

Balboa-Castells,

Ahufinger,

Sanz-Torrent

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Developmental Language Disorder and Writing: A Scoping Review From Childhood to Adulthood

Tucci

Choi

2023

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a scoping review of literature focused on the effects of developmental language disorder (DLD) on writing skills across the life span to highlight gaps in our knowledge of how to support writing for this population. Method: We adopted the five-step framework for conducting scoping reviews outlined by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) to identify literature focused on writing outcomes for individuals with DLD in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Results: Seventy-two studies from 1991 to 2022 met review criteria. Results indicated that spelling may be an area of relative weakness for individuals with DLD across the life span. Children and adolescents with DLD also may have relative difficulty with grammar, organization, cohesion, and length of written output. Research on the writing skills of adults with DLD is too sparse to draw broad conclusions about the writing skills of this subset of the population with DLD. Conclusions: Overall, research into the writing skills of individuals with DLD is limited, and more information is needed to inform functional evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention of writing for those with DLD from childhood through adulthood. Additionally, more focus on electronic writing in research is needed, as only two studies included in this review examined typed writing in any form. Results of this review also indicate a need for systematic, uniform approaches to defining and measuring writing skills for those who experience language difficulties. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.23596797

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Morphological and phonological errors in the written language production of children with DLD

Ανδρέου

Aslanoglou

Lymperopoulou

et al. 2023

European Journal of Special Needs Education

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Written Language Production in Children With Developmental Language Disorder

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Exploring Spanish writing abilities of children with developmental language disorder in expository texts

Exploring Spanish writing abilities of children with developmental language disorder in expository texts

Developmental Language Disorder and Writing: A Scoping Review From Childhood to Adulthood

Morphological and phonological errors in the written language production of children with DLD

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