IJLCD - The impact of DLD on jury perceptions

RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Does knowing whether a defendant has a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder affect how mock jurors rate that defendant's levels of guilt, sentence length, credibility and blameworthiness?

In this podcast we chat with Dr Hannah Hobson, Samantha Gamblen and Claire Westwood about the research they did to answer this question and what it revealed.

The paper is:
The impact of developmental language disorder in a defendant's description on mock jurors’ perceptions and judgements

Hannah Madaleine Hobson, Jemma Woodley, Samantha Gamblen, Joanna Brackely, Fiona O'Neill, Danielle Miles, Claire Westwood

First Published: 10 September 2022

Useful resources:
Access the paper here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14606984/2023/58/1

Access the project dataset, vignette and codebook: https://osf.io/znve3/
RCSLT open access guide to DLD: https://www.rcslt.org/speech-and-language-therapy/clinical-information/developmental-language-disorder/
The Box elearning: Free learning to help with understanding what are speech, language and communication needs are and how to recognise them; plus strategies to support.
https://www.rcsltcpd.org.uk/courses/the-box-learning-journey/
Mind your words: Children and young people:
Free elearning to improve your understanding of children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs and speech, language and communication needs.
https://www.rcsltcpd.org.uk/courses/mind-your-words-children-and-young-peoples-mental-health/
NOTES:
For RCSLT members, access this paper by navigating to the IJLCD website from our A-Z journals list here. Also, if you would like further information on the research terms used in the podcast, or many other aspects of research design, please navigate to the ‘Sage Research Methods’ collection from the Research Methods page of the RCSLT website’.
The interview is conducted by Jacques Strauss, freelance producer, on behalf of The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.