Listening to children with DLD: What can we learn?
Communication is fundamental to social connectedness, emotional wellbeing, academic success, and vocational outcomes. Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) are known to have challenges communicating, highlighting the important role speech pathologists have in supporting this population. An in-depth understanding of how these communication challenges may impact children’s everyday functioning is needed to ensure these supports are individualised and client centered.
In this seminar, we first focus on personal narrative skills, the ability to relate past personally experienced events, which make up more than half of children’s daily conversations. We present an overview of the Global TALES protocol for eliciting personal narratives, before presenting findings into the personal narrative performance of 50 ten-year-old children with DLD and their age-matched peers without DLD. We finish by providing an overview of high school students’ per-spectives on school-based tasks, educational supports, and school connectedness.
Presenters:
Marleen Westerveld is an A/Professor at Griffith University. Her research focuses on children’s spoken and written language skills needed to participate in daily activities at home, school, and in the community. She is the project leader of the Global TALES Consortium.
Mateja Gabaj is a practising speech pathologist and a PhD candidate at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research topic is “Production of Personal Narratives in Children with Developmental Language Disorder”.
Shaun Ziegenfusz is practising speech pathologist, and a lecturer and PhD candidate at Griffith University. His research topic is “The Educational Needs and Supports of School-Aged Students with DLD in Australia”. Shaun is CEO of the DLDProject.
Date: Thursday, 2 May 2024
Time: 4.30pm – 6.00pm
Place:G11, Room 3.64 Griffith University Gold Coast campus
Parklands Drive
Southport QLD 4215
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Cost: SPA Members – Complimentary & Non SPA members $5.00
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