Registration for SLP Summit July 21-23, 2025 is now open!
Co-occurring language and reading difficulties are highly prevalent. After all, reading involves accessing and comprehending language in written form, such that language skills are tightly interwoven with the ability to read and comprehend text. This presentation will review the key components of language that are crucial for learning to read and comprehend text. Thereafter, we will discuss the highly elevated risk for reading difficulties among children with language disorders. In this discussion, we will review and clarify terminology used to describe children with language disorders, including the classification of developmental language disorder (DLD). This course will then provide specific recommendations for how speech-language pathologists can concurrently support language and literacy development among children with language disorders within their direct scope of practice.
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