Date of Award
4-1993
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences
First Advisor
Dr. Nickola W. Nelson
Second Advisor
Dr. Michael Clark
Third Advisor
Dr. George Haus
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The language abilities of adolescents with emotional impairments were examined to determine the differences that may occur between this population and that of a control group of similar age, race, and gender. Ten adolescents with emotional impairments and ten students in general education were examined using two procedures. The Screening Test of Adolescent Language (STAL) (Prather, Breecher, Stafford, & Wallace, 1980) includes four subtests: vocabulary, auditory memory span, language processing, and proverb explanation. A language sample was also gathered using a cartoon video narration task (Dollaghan, Campbell, & Tomlin, 1990) which examined for syntactic, semantic, and discourse variables.
Results indicated that the subjects with emotional impairments scored significantly lower on the total score for the STAL and in description of significant events occurring in the video. No other significant differences were found in video narration by the students with emotional impairments.
Recommended Citation
Hardy, Diane T., "Language Skills of Adolescents with Emotional Disorders" (1993). Masters Theses. 780.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/780