‘Where are the words?’ Silence/d more-than-human readings in children with developmental language disorder (DLD)

Ana M Coves-Martínez, Alejandra Pacheco-Costa, Fernando Guzmán-Simón, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación , School of Education, Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Educación Artística , Arts Education Department, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación , School of Education, Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura y Filologías Integradas , Departament of Language and Literature Teaching, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación , School of Education, Universidad de Sevilla

Childhood: A journal of global child research

Published online on September 24, 2025

Abstract

Childhood, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 228-246, May 2026.
This paper addresses the ways in which children labelled with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) take part in a more-than-human reading event in the school. In this context, we approach what silence do from a neo-materialist lens that enables us to ...