2025

UPCOMING EVENTS & INFORMATION

Promotional Videos

“Speak Up” for DLD
https://vimeo.com/user111234624/speakupfordld?share=copy

DLD around the world
https://youtu.be/-5-YsidOx8U?feature=shared

Growing with DLD
https://youtu.be/3xUFRae8aSw?si=PqmdrayvmfhKHq21

Teacher’s Perspectives
https://vimeo.com/632122666

“You can’t see Developmental Language Disorder”: Raising Visibility Through Research, Lived Experience, and Educational Practice.

We are pleased to hold our second Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day Forum hosted by the North East Metropolitan Language Development Centre on Friday, 17^th October 2025. Stay tuned for more information.

DLD Day Community Picnic @ Burswood Park

Central picnic: As has been the case in previous years, we will be holding a central DLD Day community picnic/BBQ in the Burswood area after school on DLD Day.

2019

On the 18th of October 2019, DLD Awareness Day was celebrated across the world.

At the NEMLDC we had a very special set of celebrations, including a fun day for our school community, an information forum for our broader community, as well as visits from our local politicians. Our team together with other RADLD Ambassadors also arranged for various Perth land marks to be lit up in purple and yellow to raise awareness of DLD.

Forum

The NEMLDC hosted an information forum about DLD and how communication difficulties are supported here in the WA education system (the LDCs and the outreach Service). This forum was attended by over 40 of our community members from various sectors, including the health, education (primary, secondary and university) and business sectors, the research community, local and state government, as well as the disability, not-for-profit and youth justice sectors. At the forum attendees heard from speech pathologists, school executives, LDC staff and the parent of a child with DLD. Click here for more information about what was discussed at the forum – DLD, communication difficulties & support in WA.

We were very lucky to have the Director General of the Education Department join us to learn more about DLD.

Our students have been learning to do an Acknowledgement of Country.

Some of the forum speakers having a bit of fun at the photo booth.

The parent of a child with DLD sharing her experiences and how important support is.

One of our mainstream deputy principals engaged with the Outreach Service sharing his school’s journey with us.

Fun Day & Visitors

Our school community enjoyed a fun day with students, educators and families. At our fun day our community moved through a number of activity stations where educators and families had the opportunity to develop their children’s language through fun activities. To see the sorts of strategies used at each station, please click here. We were lucky enough to also have several of our local politicians show their support during the day.