09/15/2025
DID YOU KNOW?
Did you know that it is likely that at least 50% of children identified with reading disabilities* also have developmental language disorders?
The current frameworks used to determine whether a child meets diagnostic criteria for dyslexia in the US public schools DO NOT explicitly require that oral language skills beyond phonological awareness be assessed.
Children with identified reading disorders should have multiple areas of language assessed to identify and treat other language deficits that may also be present. Assessing multiple areas of language would include assessment of phonology, orthography, morphology, semantics, syntax, and discourse processing.
* Depending on the assessment tests used
From: Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. Volume 49, Issue 4
October 2018
