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October 1, 2025Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

Clinical Screening Tools to Identify Adolescents at Risk for Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review

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KHKeith HillGPGerard H. PollERElizabeth Roberts

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Overview

This systematic review identifies screening tools for developmental language disorder in adolescents, highlighting classification accuracy and assessment methods.

Key Points

  • Three out of six diagnostic tasks show clinically useful accuracy for identifying adolescents at risk for developmental language disorder.
  • All studies included in this review were assessed using the QUADAS-2 protocol and showed risk of bias in diagnostic accuracy findings.
  • The review identified 15 potential screening tools, emphasizing the need for further evaluation of their effectiveness and reliability.
  • Two screening tasks are commercially available in English, underscoring the gap in resources targeting adolescents with developmental language disorder.

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Hill et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dd91dafe798ba2fc499364https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_lshss-24-00165
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