Persistence of the developmental language disorder diagnosis, neurodevelopmental trajectories and attendance at offered interventions.

Aim: To study the diagnostic stability of developmental language disorders, other neurodevelopmental disorders and interventions received until age 6 years in children who screened positive for language delay, but not for autism, at age 2.5 years.

Methods: In 2016, in Gothenburg, Sweden, 100 monolingual or multilingual children underwent language assessment at a mean age of 2.

Developmental language disorder: similarities and differences between 6-year-old mono- and multilingual children.

This study investigated language ability in 6-year-old mono- and multilingual children who, at age 2;6 years, had screened positive for developmental language disorder (DLD). One hundred children (32 girls, 68 boys) were assessed at an average age of 2;9 years (T1) and 85 of them (30 girls, 55 boys) were reassessed at age 6;0 years (T2) using a standardised test battery. Of these, 68 (23 girls, 45 boys) met the criteria for DLD diagnosis; 28 of them were monolingual and 40 multilingual.

Neurodevelopmental problems and quality of life in 6-year-olds with a history of developmental language disorder.

Aim: To explore family-reported neurodevelopmental functioning and quality of life in 6-year-olds who had screened positive for developmental language disorder at age 2.5 years.

Methods: Parents of 85 6-year-old children completed questionnaires about child neurodevelopmental difficulties and quality of life.

Children screening positive for language delay at 2.5 years: language disorder and developmental profiles.

Purpose: To characterize language disorder and developmental profiles in children who screened positive for language delay but negative for autism at 2.5 years of age.

Patients And Methods: The first 100 children who screened positive for language delay - but negative for autism - in 2016 were assessed in detail by speech language pathologists.