Language Sampling With Adolescents

by Nippold

Overview

Language Sampling with Adolescents: Implications for Intervention, now in its second edition, provides guidelines for analyzing spoken and written language production in adolescents. It is geared toward graduate students and speech-language pathologists who work in the public schools with middle school and high school students (Grades 5-12). The book includes many tables, figures, and practical exercises (with answer keys) to help readers understand how to analyze the content and structure of what adolescents express in different genres: conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive. Based on formal analyses, the book indicates how the information can be applied to establish functional language goals for adolescents with language disorders. It also explains how to implement intervention activities that are designed to enhance spoken and written language production in adolescents.. For the second edition, the author has revised and updated the content and added a new chapter on "Adolescent Language Disorders" that includes information on specific language impairment, nonspecific language impairment, and autism spectrum disorder. The author has also added more information on:. Different types of discourse problems that can occur in different types of language disorders, with examples. Intervention for each different genre (including conversation, narration, exposition, and persuasion). In addition, the exercises have been restructured to provide more examples of each type of syntactic element to be analyzed. More examples of language samples from adolescents have been added, including adolescents with autism. Finally, the author has added more exercises for grammar coding.. With its new and updated content and features, Language Sampling with Adolescents: Implications for Intervention, second edition is a must-have resource for clinicians working with middle and high school students with language disorders..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597565707
Publisher:	Plural Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	04/28/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

Preface|vii

Acknowledgements xi

Part I Working With Adolescents 1

Chapter 1 Why Language Sampling? 3

Chapter 2 History of Language Sampling 15

Chapter 3 Adolescent Language Development 27

Chapter 4 Language Sampling Guidelines 33

Chapter 5 Language Sampling Tasks 41

Chapter 6 Adolescents with Austism Spectrum Disorders 67

Chapter 7 Intervention: Conversational and Narrative Discourse 85

Chapter 8 Bringing It All Together; the School Newspaper 111

Part II Grammar Review and Exercises 121

Chapter 10 Types of Words and Phrases 123

Chapter 11 Types of Clauses 149

Chapter 12 Types of Sentences 179

Chapter 13 Units of Measurement 191

Chapter 14 Analyzing Language Samples from Adolescents 205

Appendix A Answer Keys for Chapter Exercises 233

References 309

Index 321

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Adrienne B. Hancock, PhD(George Washington University)
Description: This basic overview of the components of a language sample also includes guidelines on how to elicit a language sample and intervention techniques used with adolescents.
Purpose: It presents basic concepts of language sampling and intervention for adolescents, rather than young children.
Audience: The intended audience is undergraduate or graduate students in the communication disorders field. It would be best used as a clinical resource, when planning intervention.
Features: This book provides a basic explanation of language development before covering language sampling in four different genres (conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive), and intervention. Often, language development in adolescents is unclear. This book provides language milestones for adolescents that are often missing in other books. It is well organized and easy to read and includes charts to help illustrate the author's points. Chapter exercises allow readers to practice language sample analysis, and an answer key appears at the end of the book.
Assessment: This book sets itself apart from other language sampling books by including intervention techniques and chapter exercises. However, compared to other language sampling books, it is not as comprehensive in explaining how to analyze a sample. For a course, it would be better used as supplemental training material.

Reviewer: Adrienne B. Hancock, PhD (George Washington University)
Description: This basic overview of the components of a language sample also includes guidelines on how to elicit a language sample and intervention techniques used with adolescents.
Purpose: It presents basic concepts of language sampling and intervention for adolescents, rather than young children.
Audience: The intended audience is undergraduate or graduate students in the communication disorders field. It would be best used as a clinical resource, when planning intervention.
Features: This book provides a basic explanation of language development before covering language sampling in four different genres (conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive) , and intervention. Often, language development in adolescents is unclear. This book provides language milestones for adolescents that are often missing in other books. It is well organized and easy to read and includes charts to help illustrate the author's points. Chapter exercises allow readers to practice language sample analysis, and an answer key appears at the end of the book.
Assessment: This book sets itself apart from other language sampling books by including intervention techniques and chapter exercises. However, compared to other language sampling books, it is not as comprehensive in explaining how to analyze a sample. For a course, it would be better used as supplemental training material.

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