DLD researchers: Let's work together

Although there are quite a few wonderful projects raising awareness of DLD, a project to help build research capacity was missing from the mix. E-DLD fills this gap and helps build capacity for high quality research into the causes, treatment and consequences of DLD.

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We are creating a database of families and individuals affected by DLD. The aim is two-fold:

1. To provide families with up to date scientific information about DLD in an easy to understand format

2. To help facilitate recruitment for research projects into DLD. 

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We are happy to advertise any DLD related research projects to our E-DLD members. You will need to clearly demonstrate ethical approval from a suitable ethics review board and complete our application forms below. 

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We would love for you to get involved.  Please consider distributing our recruitment materials if you are recruiting children, adolescents or adults with DLD.  

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See below for:

• Our webinar explaining how E-DLD and researchers can work together.

• Application forms to advertise your research project to the E-DLD members

• Recruitment flyers to distribute to any families or individuals with DLD that you can contact about your research. 

• Please email your application for approval and your advertisement detail form to E-DLD@bath.ac.uk

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Who are the E-DLD members?

• As of May 2021, we have over 100 E-DLD parents (parents of children with DLD are under 16) and over 10 adults or individuals with DLD over 16. 

• For the children and parent E-DLD members:

  • Mean age of the children is 8.7 years​

  • Approximately 68% of the children are male

  • 79% of children are monolingual

  • 86% have siblings (we have data on whether they are older or younger)

  • 77% are from the UK - internationally 11 other non-UK countries are represented

  • 72.7% of those who report official diagnoses, report DLD (sometimes with other diagnoses)

    • Only 3% report a diagnosis that rules out DLD (e.g., ASD; we don't send research emails to these individuals)

    • The majority of the other reported diagnoses reported reflect a diagnosis of DLD just using other terminology

    • About 10% of parents don't fill in this section of the sign up survey

• We send yearly survey invitations out to all of our E-DLD members ​​​

  • This will eventually help form an open access database showing children's development across time. ​

How to Advertise to E-DLD members

Requesting permission for central E-DLD data

Share your research

Have you published research on DLD? We'd love to add your findings to our research summaries.

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Step 1: Download our template

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Step 2: Summarise your study and email it to us

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Step 3: Our team will review your summary.
We may make some tweaks to the language to ensure it can be easily understood by all readers.

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Step 4: When we have a free slot, we'll post your summary on our website. We'll also create a Twitter thread to publicise this work.

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Alternatively, if you have a topic you'd like us to cover in our research summaries, please get in touch!

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