Children with expressive delays show delayed vocabulary acquisition and often show delayed development of sentence structure and articulation. Toddlers who exhibit LLE may also be referred to as 'late talkers' or 'late language learners.'Ĭhildren with LLE may have expressive language delays only, or they may have mixed expressive and receptive delays.
LLE is diagnosed when language development trajectories are below age expectations. Late language emergence (LLE) is a delay in language onset with no other diagnosed disabilities or developmental delays in other cognitive or motor domains. See the Late Language Emergence Evidence Map for summaries of the available research on this topic. The scope of this page is late language emergence in children from 2 to 4 years of age.
