Language Sampling with Adolescents: Implications for Intervention

Second Edition

Marilyn A. Nippold

Details: 352 pages, B&W, Softcover, 7" x 10"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-570-7

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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 with middle school and high school students (Grades 5-12). Included within the book are tables, figures, and practical exercises (with answer keys) to help readers understand how to analyze the content and structure of the different adolescent language genres--conversational, narrative, expository, and persuasive--and how to utilize this information in establishing functional language goals and implementing intervention activities for adolescents with language disorders.

The second edition includes revised and updated content along with two new chapters: "Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders," which addresses how to adjust standard language sampling procedures for adolescents with ASD, and "Analyzing Language Samples from Adolescents," which provides speaking and writing language samples from various genres elicited from adolescents with typical language development (TLD).

Adolescents' ability to express themselves with clarity, precision, and efficiency is essential for success in contemporary educational settings. Language Sampling with Adolescents: Implications for Intervention, Second Edition, is a must-have resource for those working with students to achieve that success.

Reviews

"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."
—Mary Huston, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech Adventures Blog

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I: Working With Adolescents

Chapter 1. Why Language Sampling?
Chapter 2. History of Language Sampling
Chapter 3. Adolescent Language Development
Chapter 4. Language Sampling Guidelines
Chapter 5. Language Sampling Tasks
Chapter 6. Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Chapter 7. Intervention: Conversational and Narrative Discourse
Chapter 8. Intervention: Expository and Persuasive Discourse
Chapter 9. Bringing it All Together: The School Newspaper

Part II. Grammar Review and Exercises

Chapter 10. Types of Words and Phrases
Chapter 11. Types of Clauses
Chapter 12. Types of Sentences
Chapter 13. Units of Measurement
Chapter 14. Analyzing Language Samples from Adolescents

Appendix A: Answer Keys for Chapter Exercises

References
Index

Authors

Marilyn A. Nippold

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, stuttering, and critical thinking. Professor Nippold is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and was awarded ASHA Honors in 2015. She received the Editor’s Award for articles published in ASHA journals in 1983 and 2001, and the Outstanding Publications Award from the Division of Communication, Language, and Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DCD) in 2009. She has published ten books, more than 140 journal articles and book chapters, and has served as editor-in-chief of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools (2010–2015). A philosopher, scholar, and truth-seeker, Professor Nippold received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles; her master’s degree in communicative disorders from California State University Long Beach; and her doctorate in speech-language-hearing sciences from Purdue University. A licensed speech-language pathologist, she is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international conferences.

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