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Nadia Ahufinger1, Mari Aguilera2, Ernesto Guerra3
1Estudis de Psicologia i Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain; NeuroDevelop eHealth Lab, eHealth Center, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Background:
Research on emotional suffering symptoms in individuals with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is still limited.
Aims:
To describe the emotional suffering experienced by school-aged children and adolescents with DLD.
Methods And Procedures:
Psychological symptoms were measured using the Spanish version of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in a sample of 109 (67 boys) children and adolescents with DLD and 101 (62 boys) TD participants reported by their parents.
Outcomes And Results:
Participants with DLD experienced more emotional problems than TD children according to their parents. Those with DLD displayed significantly more symptoms related to anxiety, depression, social withdrawal, aggressive behavior, social, thought, and attention problems and also on the internalizing and externalizing composite indexes. A higher percentage of participants with DLD scored within the clinical range on almost all CBCL dimensions compared to TD participants. The severity of rule-breaking problems, aggressive behavior, and social problems decreased with age. Both boys and girls with DLD showed an internalizing and externalizing profile, but girls with DLD scored significantly higher on thought problems.
Conclusions And Implications:
Population with DLD experience heightened emotional suffering, with some experiencing severe symptoms. This underscores the need for preventive programs that address not only the language difficulties in DLD, but also their socio-emotional development.
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