Beowulf_and_Roland

Beowulf and Roland Over the years, previous research has confirmed a high incidence of communication problems among male and female juvenile delinquents. Researchers have documented challenges in a broad range of communication skills including articulation, fluency, semantics, morphology, and syntax (Cozad; Falconer). Basically these findings resulted from assessment procedures that relied primarily on standardized tests rather than analyses of conversational skills or other means of assessing how individuals use language functionally in their everyday social interactions. Standardized speech and language tend to focus on mastery of discrete skills and rarely assess communication performance in “real life” situations. Standardized testing has shown that juvenile delinquents have a high incidence of communication problems. A productive study was conducted to explore communication problems in juvenile delinquents. There were forty-five female participants residing at a correctional institution for adjudicated youths. Ages of the participants ranged from fourteen to eighteen years. They had to be convicted of committing one or more misdemeanor or felony offenses. Twenty-nine of the participants were Caucasian, six were Native American, four were African-American, four were Hispanic, and two were Asian American. They were all from lower socio-economic or working class families. This has all beowulf, communication, participants, youths, behaviors, skills, one, conversation, topics, others, even, comments, violence, researchers, during, delinquents, class, topic, problems, poor, interactions, about, listening, knew, information, data, aware, two, time, study, received, over, juvenile, gangs, four, follow, conversational, body, social, services, research, period, order, notes, language, evident, done, disorders, discussions, certain, attention