Working With Adolescents

This page includes information on assessment, service delivery models, developmental milestones, literacy, fluency, pragmatics, and suggestions for motivating adolescents.

ASHA Practice Policy Documents

• Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists With Respect to Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents: Position Statement
• Roles and Responsibilities of Speech-Language Pathologists With Respect to Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents: Guidelines
• Knowledge and Skills Needed by Speech-Language Pathologists With Respect to Reading and Writing in Children and Adolescents
• Adolescent Literacy and Older Students with Learning Disabilities

ASHA Journal Articles

Read related articles from ASHA's journals including Perspectives, Special Interest Division newsletters. Also see selected articles below from ASHA's journal collection.  

Assessment  

• Language Assessment in Adolescents: Addressing Critical Issues
• Developmental Markers in Adolescent Language: Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics

Service Delivery Models

• Service Delivery Models for Adolescents with Language Disorders
• Adolescent Language Programs

Language Development in Adolescents

• Infusing Language Enhancement Into Reading Curriculum for Disadvantaged Adolescents [PDF]
• Speech and Language Skills in Children and Adolescents with Down's Syndrome 

Improving Literacy Skills in Adolescents

• Assessment and Intervention in Overcoming Writing Difficulties: An Illustration From the Self-Regulated Strategy Development Model

Fluency Therapy With Adolescents

• Helping Adolescents Who Stutter Focus on Fluency

Pragmatics and Executive Functioning in Adolescents

• What Are Executive Functions and Self-Regulation and What Do They Have To Do With Language-Learning Disorders?
• When "Emily Dickinson" Met "Steven Spielberg": Assessing Social Information Processing in Literacy Contexts
• Importance of Selected Communication Skills for Talking With Peers and Teachers: Adolescents' Opinions

Motivating Adolescents

• Second Chances: Improving Decoding Skills in the Older Student
• Adolescent Pragmatic Skills: A Comparison of Latino Students in English as a Second Language and Speech and Language  Programs

 The ASHA Leader

Read articles from ASHA's magazine. 

Continuing Your Education

 Opportunities to learn and earn ASHA CEUs. 

Related Resource

Guidance and Career Counselors Toolkit [PDF] Advising High School Student with Disabilities on Post-Secondary Options