Developmental language disorders (DLD) and dyslexia overlap about 50 percent of the time. This means that although they often co-occur, each can occur without the other. The profiles—DLD alone, DLD with dyslexia, and dyslexia alone—have unique implications for planning individualized interventions.

What does that mean for you and your everyday practice? Find out in this in this 2-hour live webinar with Dr. Nickola Nelson, first author of the Test of Integrated Language & Literacy Skills™ (TILLS™) and the Student Language Scale (SLS). This intermediate-level webinar will help language and literacy professionals hone their skills and increase their confidence and expertise in differential diagnosis and individualized intervention.

Dr. Nelson will provide exercises in scoring TILLS subtests and interpreting TILLS profiles relative to the quadrant model. You’ll see how these results, along with input from parents and teachers on the SLS, can help you arrive at differential diagnoses and select the best pathways for intervention. Case examples will illustrate content, contexts, and activities for intervention.

Learning Outcomes:
Following this webinar, you’ll be able to:
• Interpret assessment profiles using TILLS results and the quadrant model to differentially diagnose DLD, DLD with dyslexia, and dyslexia
• Apply your new knowledge of how intervention goals and methods should differ for students with DLD + dyslexia, dyslexia only, and DLD only
• Provide contrasting examples of intervention activities focused on sound/word structure problems and sentence/discourse problems, including vocabulary