Adolescents in flexible education settings and state care show very high rates of language and literacy impairment¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2021 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2026: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? 72% of adolescents in an Australian flexible education setting had impaired oral language skills, and 92% of adolescents in state care scored below the average range on standardized language measures. → Pamela C. Snow 2021 q2 i? 92% of adolescents in state care scored in the very low range on a reading comprehension task and 65% below average on single-word reading. → Pamela C. Snow 2021 (2)

Evidence¶

Pamela C. Snow 2021¶

Pamela C. Snow. (2021). Psychosocial Adversity in Early Childhood and Language and Literacy Skills in Adolescence: The Role of Speech-Language Pathology in Prevention, Policy, and Practice. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-20-00120

q2 · i? · associational · r?

Observational study of adolescents (Mage = 16 years) in Australian flexible education settings (Snow et al., 2019): 72% with impaired oral language, nearly half with reading comprehension age-equivalents under 12 years; none referred for speech-language pathology assessment.

"72% of a sample of students ( Mage = 16 years) enrolled in a flexible education setting in Australia had impaired oral language skills and that nearly half had reading comprehension age-equivalent scores of less than 12 years"

Pamela C. Snow 2021 (2)¶

Pamela C. Snow. (2021). Psychosocial Adversity in Early Childhood and Language and Literacy Skills in Adolescence: The Role of Speech-Language Pathology in Prevention, Policy, and Practice. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_PERSP-20-00120

q2 · i? · review · r1

Observational study of adolescents in state care (Snow et al., 2020): 92% below average on standardized language measures, the same percentage in the very low range on reading comprehension, and 65% below average on single-word reading.

"92% of the sample having language skillsbelow the av- erage range on standardized measures and the same percenta g es c o r i n gi nt h ev e r yl o wr a n g eo nar e a d i n gc o m p r e h e n s i o n task (and 65% below average on a single-word reading measure)"

Discussion¶

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