Morning quote: ‘“Language is a vulnerable cognitive function,” she says. “You can have many paths that will lead to a language disorder.” The diagnostic categories and groups people are placed into are “just artificial abstractions humans use to try and make sense of the world,” she says. The reality is “much messier and sloppier,” and the goal should be getting services to those who need them.’
Really gets to the heart of my own view on neurodevelopmental language impairment and language development in general. Language is a robust cultural tool tuned to our cognitive system- but it’s complexity makes it vulnerable to differences in capacity in ways that other areas of function are not.
#SLP #DevelopmentalDifferences #NeuroDiversity #LanguageImpairment
A nice article about an important thinker.
@deevybee