Research Review: Mathematical skills in children with developmental language disorder – a systematic review and meta‐analysis.

Background: Language is an essential skill for learning and academic achievement; therefore, children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are at risk for learning difficulties. Previous research has indicated a higher prevalence of mathematical difficulties in children with DLD compared to co...

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Publicado en:Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry Vol. 67; no. 8; pp. 1442 - 1454
Autores principales: Høgetveit, Anne Mari, Canrinus, Esther Tamara, Donolato, Enrica, Melby‐Lervåg, Monica
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2026
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          Høgetveit, Anne Mari
          Canrinus, Esther Tamara
          Donolato, Enrica
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          Department of Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
          Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria
          Department of Special Needs Education and CREATE, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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        Task performance
        Age distribution
        Language disorders
        Cognition
        Children
        Mathematics
        Research funding
        Meta-analysis
        Descriptive statistics
        Acalculia
        Systematic reviews
        MEDLINE
        Child development deviations
        Data analysis software
        Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
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          Task performance
          Age distribution
          Language disorders
          Cognition
          Children
          Mathematics
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          Meta-analysis
          Descriptive statistics
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          Systematic reviews
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          Child development deviations
          Data analysis software
          Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
          ERIC (Information retrieval system)
          Publication bias
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        children
        Developmental language disorders
        mathematical skills
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        Developmental language disorders
        mathematical skills
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      ab: Background: Language is an essential skill for learning and academic achievement; therefore, children with developmental language disorder (DLD) are at risk for learning difficulties. Previous research has indicated a higher prevalence of mathematical difficulties in children with DLD compared to control children without such difficulties. However, the extent to which DLD and mathematical difficulties co‐occur, as well as the nature of the difficulties, remains unclear. Methods: We performed a meta‐analysis of 30 studies examining the mathematical skills of children with DLD compared to controls and examined moderators related to children's age, cognitive abilities, mathematical domains, diagnostic status, and publication type. Results: Children with DLD performed approximately 1 SD (Hedges' g = −1.03) below age‐matched controls in mathematics. Group differences were moderated by the type of mathematical task, with children with DLD being more impaired in arithmetic, counting, word problems, and composite math skills than in tasks evaluating Arabic number knowledge and magnitude judgment. There was a small‐study effect, but publication bias was not confirmed. Conclusions: Children with DLD perform considerably more poorly than controls in mathematics and are at a high risk of mathematical difficulties. This supports the notion that these children have a complex profile of difficulties.
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