This is a very interesting article and well worth reading.
If you have a 0 to five years old child, or you teach or care for children in this age group, I highly recommend Diane McGuinness's 'Growing a Reader from Birth'.Follow the expert's advice, but guard against having your child labelled. I recommend that you don't share information about a diagnosis with your child's preschool or school. If you schedule sessions with a speech and language therapist, think of your child needing extra help, in the same way he might need extra help with handwriting and forming letters correctly.
When parents and teachers believe a child has a language impairment, this can have a profound impact on the child's academic progress. There are many reasons for this.
Parents and teachers tend to expect less and make excuses for the child. Many schools put these children in special classes.
With a few exceptions, special education is notorious for having perfected the art of "dumbed-down learning," the exact opposite of what a child with a language delay needs.
As a result, children get further behind in their schoolwork which puts them at extra risk of emotional and psychological difficulties...