Treatment of Developmental Language Disorders

Abstract

Any discussion on the treatment of language disorders raises nosological questions that are quite central to research in this area. We will focus on the treatment of specific developmental language disorders in the DSM-III sense of the term, and, more specifically, on developmental dysphasia as Bryan Woods (1985) defined it: “developmental dysphasia refers to a level of language function that is significantly below age norms, has always been so and is not adequately accounted for by general mental retardation, peripheral sensory or motor defects, severe emotional disturbance, or major environmental deprivation” (p. 139–144).