Language disorders can occur for various reasons: organic, environmental, etc. Sometimes, however, they occur in the absence of all known causes and language acquisition takes place in a specific way. The master's thesis presents developmental language disorder, which involves characteristic language problems that were not caused by known neurological, sensory, cognitive or emotional deficits. According to various foreign studies, it is often accompanied by non-language problems, such as motor, although they were not defined in the definition until recently. As a result, these deficits are often unrecognized, even though they are essential for a child's overall development. The aim of the master's thesis is to assess the motor and language abilities of five children with developmental language disorders and compare them with a group of five children with typical development, the same chronological age (7 to 10 years) and identify which individual language and motor areas differ most. The language profile of children was assessed by language tests that test the field of narrative skills, phonological awareness, receptive skills, and language processing in the field of morphosyntax. The assessment of children's motor abilities was made with the Movement Assessment Battery for Children – Movement ABC-2. The obtained results showed that the group of children with developmental language disorder is weaker than the group of children with typical development in all assessed language areas, and statistically significantly they differ the most in narrative abilities. The group of children with developmental language disorder also achieved statistically significantly worse results in motor tests, especially in the field of targeting and hunting and balance. Based on the obtained results, we can conclude that in the diagnosis and treatment of children with developmental language disorders, greater emphasis should be placed on both language and motor areas.
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