Exam 5: Adolescents With Language Impairment

Approximately half of the children in a study of adolescent suicide also had learning disabilities.

The prevalence of language impairment in adolescence is approximately 8%.

What challenges do adolescents with language impairment face in learning a foreign language?

Discuss competent use of register shift in adolescence.

How does topic shift change across the teenage years?

Retelling a narrative is likely to elicit future and present tense verbs forms rather than past-tense forms from language-impaired adolescents.

Discuss alternatives to traditional service delivery models with adolescents. Use examples.

What difficulties might arise from using language samples in adolescent assessment?

What does an adolescent who employs the same "register" when speaking to a teacher or friend have difficulty with?

For what reasons might adolescent language impairment be ignored?

List the features which clearly distinguish older students' spoken clausal structures from those of younger students.