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Assessing Adolescent Metacognitive Skills to Support Transition Planning: Age-Related Change and Domain Specificity
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Poll, Gerard H.; Petru, Janis – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2023
Metacognitive ability supports both self-regulated academic learning and effective social communication. It is critical to adolescents' ability to successfully transition from secondary education to adult contexts, underscoring the need to understand age-related changes beyond childhood. There have been conflicting findings on whether…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Metacognition, Transitional Programs, Secondary School Students
The Language, Literacy and Mental Health Profiles of Adolescents in Out-of-Home Care: An Australian Sample
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Snow, Pamela; McLean, Emina; Frederico, Margarita – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
Adolescents in the care of the state have complex developmental needs that include low academic attainment. The aim of this study was to describe the language and literacy profiles of adolescents (aged 13-19) in out-of-home care ('looked after children'). Mental health status, biopsychosocial history, and education and employment histories were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Residential Care, Mental Health
Screening Tests Reveal High Risk among Adjudicated Adolescents of Auditory Processing and Language Disorders
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Moncrieff, Deborah; Miller, Elizabeth; Hill, Earl – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The study investigated the prevalence of risk factors for auditory processing and language disorders among adolescents residing at a local juvenile detention center. Method: A total of 782 adjudicated adolescents with normal hearing were screened with the Randomized Dichotic Digits Test (Strouse & Wilson, 1999) and the Dichotic Words…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Adolescents, Juvenile Justice, Language Tests
Examining General and Specific Factors in the Dimensionality of Oral Language and Reading in 4th-10th Grades
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Foorman, Barbara R.; Koon, Sharon; Petscher, Yaacov; Mitchell, Alison; Truckenmiller, Adrea – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
The objective of this study was to explore dimensions of oral language and reading and their influence on reading comprehension in a relatively understudied population--adolescent readers in 4th through 10th grades. The current study employed latent variable modeling of decoding fluency, vocabulary, syntax, and reading comprehension so as to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Oral Reading, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Identifying Demographic and Language Profiles of Children with a Primary Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Walsh, Irene P.; Scullion, Mary; Burns, Sarah; MacEvilly, Deirdre; Brosnan, Geraldine – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2014
As the language presentation of children with attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADHD) is highly complex, this study aims to delineate the profile of a cohort of 40 children with ADHD, aged between 9 and 12 years, attending a child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). Speech and language therapists (SLTs) assessed the children on…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Language Tests, Speech Therapy, Allied Health Personnel
Higher Order Language Competence and Adolescent Mental Health
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Cohen, Nancy J.; Farnia, Fataneh; Im-Bolter, Nancie – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Clinic and community-based epidemiological studies have shown an association between child psychopathology and language impairment. The demands on language for social and academic adjustment shift dramatically during adolescence and the ability to understand the nonliteral meaning in language represented by higher order language…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Health, Language Impairments, Children