Evidence record

Bedfordshire and Luton Children's Health / NHS. Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). Last reviewed 24 November 2025.

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Source record

Source kind: authoritative guidance
Evidence model: Accepted legacy v0.1 embedded source
Accessed: 2026-08-12
Oracle last reviewed: 2026-08-12

Open source

Claims this source bears on

In the CATALISE framework widely used in English-speaking research and services, DLD is a persistent developmental language disorder with meaningful everyday impact that is not associated with a known biomedical cause.

Claim reference: developmental-language-disorder#dld-claim-core · Confidence: high · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

How should ND Oracle handle international systems that use DLD more broadly or differently from the CATALISE framework?
Where should the public-facing boundary be drawn between DLD, speech-sound disorder, dyslexia and language disorder associated with conditions such as autism or hearing loss?

Learning or using more than one language does not cause DLD; assessment needs to distinguish multilingual language difference from persistent language disorder.

Claim reference: developmental-language-disorder#dld-claim-multilingual · Confidence: high · Evidence role: Legacy source route — no v0.2 contribution role inferred

Evidence limitations

None recorded.

Claim uncertainty

Which multilingual assessment approaches best distinguish DLD from expected differences in language exposure and proficiency?

Funding and conflicts

None recorded.

Evidence projection provenance

Evidence synthesis accepted by the owner on 2026-08-12 and promoted from frozen Batch A candidate blob fc99e429d6464523b12e5aa8af804fe5523d20a1; candidate history remains preserved.

Public projection ID: legacy-developmental-language-disorder-dld-source-nhs