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Retrieval practice can help children with DLD to learn new words
Citation Souto, S., Leonard, L. B., Deevy, P., Christ, S. L., Karpicke, J. D., & Schroeder, M. L. (2025). Word Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Use of Retrieval Practice During Shared Book Reading. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research , 1-17. Key terms that are in the paper Retrieval practice - learning information, then immediately trying to recall it from memory throughout learning, not just at the end. Repeated spaced retriev
A book-sharing programme can improve inferencing in children with DLD
Citation Dawes, E. Leitão, S., Claessen, M., & Kane, R. (2019). A randomised controlled trial of an oral inferential comprehension book...
Do adolescents with DLD use social cues differently?
Citation Forrest, C. L., Gibson, J. L., Button, K. S., Halligan, S. L., & St Clair, M. C. (2025). Do You Like Me? Differences in Learning...
How do children with language disorder perceive peer interactions?
Citation Cullen, H., Billingham, S., & St Clair, M. C. (2024). How do children with language disorder perceive their peer interactions? A...
Investigating the effectiveness of an online emotion recognition program in children with DLD
Citation: Durgungoz, F. C., & St Clair, M. C. (2024). An interactive technology-based emotion recognition intervention for children with...
Increasing Parents’ Understanding of Emotions in Children with DLD
Increasing Parents’ Understanding of Emotions in Children with Developmental Language Disorder  Citation Durgungoz, F. C., & St Clair,...
Emotion Understanding in Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Tsou, Y. T., Wiefferink, C. H., Broekhof, E., & Rieffe, C. (2023). Longitudinal study on emotion understanding in children with and...
Emotion recognition in children with ASD, ADHD or DLD: The role of linguistic and cognitive factors
Löytömäki, J., Ohtonen, P., Laakso, M., & Huttunen, K. (2020). The role of linguistic and cognitive factors in emotion recognition...
Social Cognition in Adolescents with Developmental Language Disorder
Forrest, C.L., Lloyd-Esenkaya, V., Gibson, J.L. et al. Social Cognition in Adolescents with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD):...
Relationship between empathy and friendship development in adolescence and how DLD affects it
Van den Bedem, N., et al. (2022). Interrelation between empathy and friendship development during (pre)adolescence and the moderating...
Trajectories of peer relations in children with DLD
Mok, P. L. H., Pickles, A., Durkin, K., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2014). Longitudinal trajectories of peer relations in children with specific...
DLD and externalising problems
Van den Bedem, N. P., Dockrell, J. E., van Alphen, P. M., & Rieffe, C. (2020). Emotional competence mediates the relationship between...
Does parents’ emotional regulation predict emotional regulation in children with and without DLD?
Aguilera, M., Ahufinger, N., Esteve-Gibert, N., Ferinu, L., Andreu, L., & Sanz-Torrent, M. (2021). Vocabulary Abilities and Parents’...
Social and emotional skills in children with DLD and reading difficulties
Sureda-Garcia, I., Valera-Pozo, M., Sanchez-Azanza, V., Adrover-Roig, D., & Aguilar-Mediavilla, E. (2021). Associations Between Self,...
Social confidence in young people with DLD
Durkin, K., Toseeb, U., Botting, N., Pickles, A., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2017). Social confidence in early adulthood among young people...
How is language related to social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in children with DLD?
Goh, S. K. Y., Griffiths, S., Norbury, C. F., & the SCALES Team. (2021). Sources of Variability in the Prospective Relation of Language...
Close relationships in adolescents with and without DLD.
Wadman, R., Durkin, K., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2011). Close relationships in adolescents with and without a history of specific language...
Social stress in adolescents with DLD
Wadman, R., Durkin, K., & Conti-Ramsden, G. (2011). Social stress in young people with specific language impairment. Journal of...
Parent and child-report of alexithymia in children with and without DLD
Hobson, H., & Bedem, N. P. (2021). The Association between Parent and Child-Report Measures of Alexithymia in Children with and without...
Parent and Self-Report Consistency in adolescents with and without DLD
Gough Kenyon, S. M., Palikara, O., & Lucas, R. M. (2021). Consistency of Parental and Self-Reported Adolescent Wellbeing: Evidence From...
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