Adolescents with Language and Learning Needs

Prologue - a vignette with an adolescent; problem solving as an appropriate basis for collaboration; the shoulder to shoulder quality of the collaboration; some adolescents and young adults appropriate for this approach; using interviews and questionnaires as assessment tools; formal and informal measures as assessment tools; principles and issues in intervention; language strategies for extended discourse; the efficacy of using this approach with different populations; regrouping for independent problem solving - "Who's Driving the Car?" transitions - understanding needs and advocating for accommodations; epilogue - revisit the original scenario with conclusions about and implications of this approach with adolescents and young adults.