Purpose: This systematic review and meta-analysis estimates the overall language skills of
youth offenders involved with the juvenile justice system. Given the importance of this …

Low levels of verbal intelligence have long been associated with risk for early onset
antisocial behavior, however considerably less is known about the deficits in specific …

Background Research has revealed that the youth offending population has low language
ability when assessed on standardized language measures. However, little is known about …

Background: Studies of the prison population suggest that the numbers of prisoners with
language and communication disorders is higher than that of the overall population …

Background Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) are strongly
overrepresented in young offender populations, and there is growing commitment …

Although there is a large body of evidence attesting to the poor social skills of juvenile
offenders, few workers have examined the underlying language skills of this population. This …

Purpose: Although a number of studies have described high rates of wide-ranging language
difficulties in youth offender samples, minimal intervention research has been conducted …

Purpose This article is concerned with the growing body of international evidence indicating
that adolescents in contact with the youth justice system are likely to have severely …

Background Adolescents in contact with youth justice are a vulnerable and marginalized
group at high risk of developmental language disorder (DLD) and other communication …

This article describes the prevalence of language problems among delinquents and
potential reasons they did not receive language services prior to their commitment to a …