Screening Tests Reveal High Risk among Adjudicated Adolescents of Auditory Processing and Language Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Moncrieff, Deborah; Miller, Elizabeth; Hill, Earl
Titel	Screening Tests Reveal High Risk among Adjudicated Adolescents of Auditory Processing and Language Disorders
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61 (2018) 4, S.924-935 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2017_JSLHR-H-17-0098
Schlagwörter	Screening Tests; Adolescents; Juvenile Justice; Language Tests; Risk; Auditory Perception; Language Processing; Scores; Correlation; Race; African Americans; Whites; Discipline; Clinical Diagnosis; Language Impairments; Communication Skills; Language Skills; Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Screening-Verfahren; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Language test; Sprachtest; Risiko; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Sprachverarbeitung; Korrelation; Rasse; Abstammung; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Disziplin; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Kommunikationsstil; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz
Abstract	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 Test (Moncrieff, 2015). A subset of 420 of those adolescents was also screened with the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF; Semel, Wiig, & Secord, 2003). Results: More than 70% of the adolescents produced weakness on at least 1 dichotic listening test. One third of those produced weakness across both dichotic listening tests, consistent with a binaural integration deficit pattern. Nearly 48% of the subgroup of adolescents produced CELF scores that fell below the criterion for age. Dichotic listening and language scores were more associated in participants with poor performance in both ears during dichotic tests, who also produced the lowest scores on the CELF. There was no main effect of race, but 17- and 18-year-old Black adolescents produced lower CELF scores than White adolescents of the same age. Conclusions: School-age children referred for disciplinary action may have undiagnosed deficits in auditory processing and/or language. Efforts to screen, diagnose, and remediate these deficits could lead to improvements in communication, learning, and language skills in this population. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01