Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder

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<P>Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are slow to start speaking and are said to have <I>developmental language disorder</I> (DLD). Children with DLD are managed by a variety of different professionals in different countries, are offered different services for different periods of time and are given a variety of different therapeutic treatments. To date, there has been no attempt to evaluate these different practices. <EM>Managing Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Theory and Practice Across Europe and Beyond</EM> does just this, reporting on the findings of a survey carried out as part of the work of COST Action IS1406, a European research network. </P><P></P><P>Law and colleagues analyse the results of a pan-European survey, looking at how different services are delivered in different counties, at the cultural factors underpinning such services and the theoretical frameworks used to inform practice in differe