Jessica Trixa, Kai Kaspar
Information literacy in the digital age: information sources, evaluation strategies, and perceived teaching competences of pre-service teachers
Frontiers in psychology
studies prison population suggest numbers prisoners language communication disorders higher overall population however prison population heterogeneous important focus specific areas population study focuses juvenile offendersthe study aimed screen language communication skills half population establishment juvenile offenders aged 1517 yearsa total 58 participants selected random screened oral subtests test adolescent adult language 3rd edn toal3 british picture vocabulary scale bpvsii test reception grammar version 2 trog2 literacy numeracy information also obtainedthe mean age group 17 years 19 lookedafter children 90 ceased attend school age 16 toal3 subtests 6690 juvenile offenders sample average language skills 4667 poor poor group none participants reached age equivalence bpvs reached 12year threshold trog total 62 sample achieved level 1 literacy findings suggest young people may necessary skills cope verbally mediated interventions aimed reducing reoffendingthe results suggest speech language therapy assessment available juvenile offenders speech language therapy intervention available found language communication difficulties also implications speech language therapy provision young people engaged within education system toal3 appears useful screening instrument population number issues around suitability assessments population discussed