Level of public awareness of language impairment Developmental language disorders are one of the most common disorders occurring in preschool and school children and they have a significant impact on quality of life and academic progress. Awareness of and knowledge about developmental language disorders is a prerequisite for good prevention, early detection and intervention and also therapy. However, informations are not sufficiently widespread and consistent and there is general view of low awareness of language disorders. The first step towards a higher level of public awareness is to see on what level is the awareness of language disorders in the Republic of Croatia. The aim of this paper is to measure the level of awareness and knowledge of lanugage disorders and to check if there are differences between respondents in terms of sex, age and education. The sample was made up of 81 respondents, of which 40 men and 41 women. Also, 28 respondents belong to the younger age group (18-39), 27 to the middle age group (40-59) and 26 to the older age group (60-70+). 40 respondents are highly educated and 41 are low educated. Respondents voluntarily decided to complete a questionnaire prepared under the COST project IS1406 (Working Group 3) entitled „Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond - a collaboration focusing on interventions for children with difficulties learning their first language“. The questionnaire consists of 29 questions and statement sentences divided into two parts: general information and awareness and information about language difficulties. The data obtained from 9 selected questions has been entered and processed in the IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows 25. The results show that the awareness of the society is low and only 67,9% of the respondents claim to have heard of language difficulties but the most respondents do not know what that term means. Primary source of inormation is the media (45,75%). 51,9% of respondents have heard about language therapy and these same respondents consider the speech-language pathologist the person responsible for the discovery and therapy of language difficulties. The best way to share information is education in schools (95,1%) and informative lectures (93,8%). Comparing results in additon to gender, age and education shows that age and education have proved to be factors that statistically significantly affect the level of societyś awareness of language difficulties. Thus, the middle age group and the highly educated respondents showed a significantly higher level of awareness of language difficulties. Sex did not significantly affected the level od consciousness, although more woman claimed to have heard of language difficulties.