Adults with language-learning disabilities: new challenges and changing perspectives.
As children and adolescents mature into adult life, their language-learning disabilities continue. Consequently, the view that language-learning disabilities are limited to the school years must be changed. This article reviews our understanding of adults with language-learning disabilities. Ecological and context-specific perspectives are presented to provide a framework for understanding the chronic and persistent nature of these disabilities across the lifespan. Descriptors of language-learning disorders in adults are provided that focus the clinician on observable behaviors to guide the process of assessment and intervention planning.
Communication Disorders Division, Emerson College, Boston, MA, USA.
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D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D012660:Semantics; D013070:Speech Therapy