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Dyslexia is a common language-based learning disability. Dyslexia can affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders. [15] The greatest difficult those with the disorder have is with spoken and the written word.
Children with persistent gender dysphoria are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. [1] Some (but not all) gender variant youth will want or need to transition, which may involve social transition (changing dress, name, pronoun), and, for older youth and adolescents, medical transition (hormone therapy or surgery).
Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder (DSM-IV 315.32) [1] is a communication disorder in which both the receptive and expressive areas of communication may be affected in any degree, from mild to severe. [2] Children with this disorder have difficulty understanding words and sentences.
A mother in Grapevine, Texas, said an English teacher convinced her teenager to change genders. “I lost my son,” she said. Her transgender child tells a different story.
The use of gender-affirming medical care for trans teens was rare between 2018 to 2022, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Roughly 0.1% of gender non-conforming teens used ...
A 2020 study estimated that as many as 2.9 million children and adolescents in North America have nonverbal learning disability, or NVLD, which affects a person’s spatial-visual skills.
The term developmental language disorder (DLD) was endorsed in a consensus study involving a panel of experts (CATALISE Consortium) in 2017. [3] The study was conducted in response to concerns that a wide range of terminology was used in this area, with the consequence that there was poor communication, lack of public recognition, and in some cases children were denied access to services.
Language disorders can affect both spoken and written language, [1] and can also affect sign language; typically, all forms of language will be impaired. Current data indicates that 7% of young children display language disorder, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with boys being diagnosed twice as often as girls.