IJLCD - Teaching little kids about big sentences RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Often, when we're working with kids with DLD, we assume that we need to be working on simple sentences or very basic vocabulary, but should we be aiming for more? Can we support children with DLD to learn to use grammar and vocabulary in ways that are functional for their life, such as their everyday communication or their school curriculum? The paper is:Teaching little kids big sentences: A randomized controlled trial showing that children with DLD respond to complex syntax intervention...