Dysgrammatism in children
and Kathrin Rothfischer, biologist and medical editorKathrin Rothfischer studied microbiology and genetics in Regensburg after an excursion into German studies. Presenting complex issues in an easily understandable way was her passion even then. That is why she turned this passion into a profession after graduating: After various positions in the medical specialist publishing house and in the public press, she finally found her journalistic home at
More about the experts All content is checked by medical journalists.Children with dysgrammatism incorrectly apply grammatical rules to the formation of sentences and the inflection of words. For example, they say: "I want the car", "Flori has to go to the bathroom", "Mom has left" or "The hedgehogs".
When learning to speak, it is completely normal that the child does not immediately form all word and sentence constructions correctly. However, by the age of four to five, they should be able to speak common sentences in grammatically correct form. If the word and sentence formation of a child clearly differs from that of their peers, one speaks of dysgrammatism. In children in the first year of school, around three percent of boys and 1.5 percent of girls have this language development disorder.
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