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Manifestations of Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese-Speaking Children: A Systematic Review
2021.10.27 Prof. SHENG Li
Professor and a faculty member of the Speech Therapy Unit
Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Manifestations of Developmental Language Disorder in Chinese-Speaking Children: A Systematic Review
Seven percent of children are affected by developmental language disorder (DLD), which causes unexplained difficulties in learning one’s native (and subsequent) language(s). Our current understanding regarding the linguistic and cognitive profiles of DLD in Chinese is limited. This not only is incommensurate with the large number of Chinese-speaking children affected by DLD, but also impedes the formulation of mechanistic explanations of DLD. In this talk, I will present an ongoing systematic review of the literature on the manifestations of DLD in Chinese. The searches resulted in 50 articles published between 1997 and 2021 in Chinese and English journals. I will summarize the main findings of this body of literature and discuss future directions for this line of inquiry.
