Clinical Practice Guideline: Interventions for Developmental Language Delay and Disorders
Deutsches Arzteblatt international
Neumann, K., Kauschke, C., et al. (2024).
Deutsches Arzteblatt international, 121(5), 155-162.
<div>This clinical practice guideline provides recommendations for interventions for children with developmental language disorders (DLD) or developmental language delay (i.e., late talking).</div>
German Society of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology
<div>Children with developmental language delay (i.e., late talkers) should receive child-centered, early intervention targeting vocabulary and syntax beginning at 2 years old. Parent-based language interventions (e.g., Heidelberg) are initially recommended for expressive language delay. A combination of parent-based and child-centered interventions should be considered for children with receptive language deficits or risk factors for DLD.</div>
<div>Children with DLD should receive language intervention in a format (e.g., group, individual, with typical peers) and with a dosage intensity that meets the individualized needs of the child.</div>
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<div>Children with DLD who are in inpatient rehabilitation may benefit from multimodal, intensive, and block/interval therapy. </div>
<div>Phonological or integrated phonological interventions should be provided to children with speech sound disorders.</div>
<div>Children with DLD should receive treatments that target their area of need as follows:</div>
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<li>Lexical-semantic impairments should receive vocabulary intervention that includes word understanding, production, and expression.</li>
<li>Grammatical (morpho-syntactic) impairments should receive grammatical interventions that target structures.</li>
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<div>Children with DLD who are multilingual should receive interventions in all the child's languages, especially their heritage language, whenever possible. </div>
