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DLD Awareness Day – October 17, 2025

Today is Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day! Developmental Language Disorder is a hidden, but common, disability that affects 1 in 14 people. DLD causes difficulties understanding and using language for no known reason. Try this quiz from RADLD to test your knowledge and learn more about DLD.

Grammar Skills Spotlight

Children with DLD may have more difficulty with grammar skills than their peers. Check out this handout to learn about expected grammar skill development for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students, as well as for information about spotting DLD in English Language Learners (ELL).

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October 18, 2024 is Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day! What is DLD? See the graphic below from DLD and Me to learn more.

Try this quiz to see how much YOU know about DLD: https://radld.org/about/dld/dld-quiz/.

See https://dldandme.org/ and https://radld.org/ for more information about DLD.

Who better to learn about autism from than the experts – not just people who study autism, but people who are actually autistic! As our knowledge about autism as a society progresses from awareness to acceptance, there is much to learn from autistic folk themselves. Below is an infographic with ways you can educate yourself about autism by listening to autistic voices.

Watch
Ask An Autistic YouTube channel
Why Everything You Know About Autism is Wrong TedTalk

Listen
Two Sides of the Spectrum podcast

Explore
The Autism Spectrum According to Autistic People website
What is autism? blog post
Uniquely Hari AAC user blog

Read
Books for kids about Autistic experiences
Loud Hands book

Shop
All Things Sensory Shop for fidgets
Divergent Minds Club Canadian jewelry & chewlery store