SLPCase ReportAmerican journal of speech-language pathology2023

A First-Person Account of Developmental Language Disorder.

Paula M Orrego, Karla K McGregor, Stella M Reyes

PMID 37195674

WHAT IT FOUND

A patient describes her lifelong experience with Developmental Language Disorder, from early signs to university success.

It is a personal story, not a study, so it provides no evidence that any specific treatment works.

What this paper is

This is a first-person narrative account of living with Developmental Language Disorder, co-written by a patient and her clinicians. It describes one individual's history of diagnosis, treatment, and academic challenges. It reports no systematic methods, no comparison groups, and no outcome data. There is no finding here to act on.

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