’Children with Developmental Language Disorder do catch up partially’

Gerda Bruinsma Contrary to what has been assumed, children with severe developmental language disorder (DLD) do in fact partially catch up upon their delays in language development. This was observed by researcher and speech and language therapist Gerda Bruinsma , Professor of Speech Therapy Ellen Gerrits and Professor of Psycholinguistics Frank Wijnen in their research at the Institute for Language Sciences. Catching up upon delays. "The fact that language skills develop was already known from previous research, but until now it was usually found that children with DLD do not catch up with their peers," Gerda Bruinsma says. "It is remarkable that in our study this did happen partially." Bruinsma, together with Ellen Gerrits and Frank Wijnen, conducted her research at Auris and Kentalis, two institutions for the education of children with DLD. "We used data from school files of preschool children with DLD to determine the progress in language skills during one school year." Special education. The study focused on different groups of children with DLD.