I recently recently attended the RT Lit’ Conference in Paihia, where I presented three workshops:
- One with Erin Devlin. “Two Chatty Dickey Birds“
Two Chatty Dickey Birds
- and two covering the topic of “Oral language Competence-if you don’t get it…..”
Basic oral language competence should have developed by age 5. This then becomes the basis for formal literacy learning after a child enters school. There are youth with clinically significant but previously undetected oral language problems (up to 50 per cent) who end up in our justice system.
Research of note around this can be found:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1663805
“Breakdown in the Language Zone:The Prevalence of Language Impairments among Juvenile and Adult Offenders and Why it Matters.”
Michele La Vigne and Gregory J.Rybroek
Trends & Issues in crime and criminal justice-No 435 April 2012
“Youth (in) justice:Oral language competence in early life and risk for engagement in antisocial behaviour in adolescence.”
Pamela Snow and Martine Powell