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.

About the Author
Marilyn A. Nippold, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor of communication disorders and sciences at the University of Oregon where she has worked since 1982, teaching and conducting research in later language development, literacy, language disorders, and stuttering.

Reviews
Mary Huston, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech Adventures Blog (June 2015): "The book starts with a brief introduction by Dr. Nippold into the "why" of language sampling for older children. It includes a "Note To Instructors" that breaks down the suggested format for using the text as a text for university classes in language assessment and intervention... In the Verbs section, it's broken down by main, copula, auxiliary, modal, finite, and nonfinite. I can see this being very helpful for many people (including SLPs...). I love the exercises that are included [in Part II: Grammar Review and Exercises]! I can see this book being a great supplement to an adolescent language course and for those of us that may not work with adolescents often, a great reminder for some potential difficulties that we may be called on to remediate. I plan on using this to help my daughter with some of her language difficulties and can see it being beneficial for others as well."



Book Information
ISBN 9781597565707
Author Marilyn A. Nippold
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Plural Publishing Inc
Publisher Plural Publishing Inc
Weight(grams) 794g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 25mm