Children with developmental language disorder and strong verbal reasoning could partly compensate delays in mathematics at the individual level, though group-level analyses revealed no protective effects (reported by the editors, citing Kleemans et al.)¶

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q2 i? Group-level analyses showed no protective effects, but individual-level analyses indicated children with DLD and strong verbal reasoning could partly compensate mathematics delays. → van Viersen 2026

Evidence¶

van Viersen 2026¶

van Viersen, S., Psyridou, M., & Torppa, M. (2026). General introduction to the special issue on resilience in learning. Learning and Instruction, 101, Article 102254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102254

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The editors report, citing Kleemans et al. (2025), a study of children with developmental language disorder in which group-level analyses found no protective effects while individual-level analyses showed strong verbal reasoning partly compensated math delays. The effect held at one level of analysis but not the other.

"Analyses at the group level did not reveal any protective effects, but analyses at the individual level indicated that children with DLD and strong verbal reasoning could partly compensate delays in mathematics."

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