
IJLCD - Six questions, eight years later: identifying early predictors of language development
From RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists by The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
December 12, 2025 · 25 min · Season 6 · Episode 19
About this episode
The episode discusses research on identifying predictors of persistent language disorders in young children with guest Loretta Gasparini.
Please let us know what you think of this podcast. In this podcast we chat with Loretta Gasparini about the research she led on finding a robust predictor tool for persistent language disorders. The aim of this research is to identify young children who are likely to have persisting language difficulties, so that we can recruit them into research, build a strong evidence base and ultimately support them to thrive. The paper is: Identifying early language predictors: A replication of G...
People in this episode
Guest: Loretta Gasparini
Topics covered
- language development
- persistent language disorders
- early predictors
- children's health
- research
Keywords
- language disorders
- predictor tool
- children
- research
- evidence base
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Books & works: Identifying early language predictors: A replication of G...
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