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Language Skills of Youth Offenders (Lount et al., 2017) ...
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Abstract:
Purpose: International evidence suggests youth offenders have greater difficulties with oral language than their nonoffending peers. This study examined the hearing, auditory processing, and language skills of male youth offenders and remandees (YORs) in New Zealand. Method: Thirty-three male YORs, aged 14–17 years, were recruited from 2 youth justice residences, plus 39 similarly aged male students from local schools for comparison. Testing comprised tympanometry, self-reported hearing, pure-tone audiometry, 4 auditory processing tests, 2 standardized language tests, and a nonverbal intelligence test. Results: Twenty-one (64%) of the YORs were identified as language impaired (LI), compared with 4 (10%) of the controls. Performance on all language measures was significantly worse in the YOR group, as were their hearing thresholds. Nine (27%) of the YOR group versus 7 (18%) of the control group fulfilled criteria for auditory processing disorder. Only 1 YOR versus 5 controls had an auditory processing ...
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Keyword:
Audio processing; Audiology; Child language acquisition; Natural language processing
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.23641/asha.14963961
https://asha.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Language_Skills_of_Youth_Offenders_Lount_et_al_2017_/14963961
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