Effects of Signs on Word Learning by Children With Developmental Language Disorder

What is it about?

In special education to children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in the Netherlands, augmentative signs (signs from a Sign language used alongside speech) are frequently used to improve language learning and comprehension by the children, although there is barely scientific evidence in favour of doing so. We investigated whether augmentative signs help word learning for nine- to eleven-year-old children with DLD. Our results suggest that using augmentative signs as a means to help spoken word learning by children with DLD is effective, even still at the age of nine to eleven years.

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