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DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1064099
Adults with Language-Learning Disabilities: New Challenges and Changing Perspectives
Publication History
Publication Date:
15 May 2008 (online)
ABSTRACT
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.
KEY WORDS
Language-learning disabilities - adults - assessment - intervention