Gerda Bruinsma

Hogeschool Utrecht · Institute of Allied Healthcare Professions

Purpose This study explores limitations in communication in daily life of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) from their parents' perspective as well as communicative abilities and social functioning in the classroom from their teacher's perspective. Furthermore, differences between children with mixed receptive–expressive disorder...

Background: Early and effective treatment for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) is important. Although a growing body of research shows the effects of interventions at the group level, clinicians observe large individual differences in language growth, and differences in outcomes across language domains. A systematic understandin...

Purpose Applying evidence-based grammar intervention can be challenging for speech and language therapists (SLTs). Language in Interaction Therapy (LIT) is a focused stimulation intervention for children with weak morphosyntactic skills, which was developed to support SLTs in incorporating results from effect studies in daily practice. The aims of...

Language intervention has varying results for individual children. Identifying factors that are linked to this variation, is important to adapt interventions to the needs of individual children. We looked at severity and classification of the disorder, multilingualism, and non-verbal intelligence in relation to improvement. From 154 children (4-5...

Several studies have shown that language therapy can be effective in children with DLD (Law et al, 2004, Broomfield & Dodd, 2011). However, not every child shows improvement and little is known about child characteristics related to progress. Understanding of these factors is important to adapt services to the needs of an individual child. In this...

Prepositions are important function words in everyday communication and serve a number of semantic and syntactic functions. Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are expected to have problems with prepositions as they are known to have considerable difficulty in acquiring function morphemes (Leonard, 1989). Surprisingly preposition use i...

Handboek Taalontwikkelingsstoornissen is a Dutch handbook bringing together recent insights from science and clinical practice in children and adolescents with Develomental Language Disorder (DLD). Besides general information on DLD, such as definition, causes, riskfactors and prognosis, the book holds practical information on all aspects of the in...