Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
“As a child, you learn that it is “he walks” and not “he walk.” You learn that because on countless occasions you hear the combination “he” and the verb stem + s (he works, he cycles, he dances). Children with a DLD recognize such patterns less well. A good 5 to 10% of children, therefore one or two per class has a DLD. This number is roughly the same as the number of children with dyslexia. Children with DLD have a problem with spoken language, whereas children with dyslexia have a problem with written language. Half of the children with a DLD also have dyslexia; autism also occurs relatively often in this group. There is nothing wrong with their hearing and cognition.” (more)