Young Adults

Why Good Language Therapy Still Fails in Young Adults

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Young adults who enter language therapy in college or after college are often very different from teenagers whose parents bring them to treatment. Many already know they are struggling. Some were identified with developmental language disorder (DLD) late. Some never received services. Others received limited or poor-quality intervention and spent years compensating, avoiding difficult tasks,

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Smart Isn’t Enough: Why Social Communication Matters in Adult Life

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We spend enormous amounts of time measuring school success. Grades. Test scores. GPA. Reading level. Math performance. College admission. All of those things matter. But life after school is not graded on a curve. Academic success does not automatically translate into success in adult life. Adults have to work with other people. They have to

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When College Isn’t the Answer: How to Protect Your Teen (and Your Wallet) from a Broken System

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Every year I meet young adults who were diagnosed with language/ learning disorders (or who were never properly identified but clearly struggled their entire school careers). Many of them did what they thought they were supposed to do: they went to college. Their parents, desperate to give them a shot at success, took out loans

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One Step at a Time: Therapy for Young Adults that Works

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After my last post, a number of parents and SLPs have contacted me to find out what typical therapy sessions with young adults look like on a weekly basis. They were especially curious about how therapy can support young adults who struggle with managing emotions, staying organized, and navigating social situations. Many of these young

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From Overlooked to Empowered: Supporting Young Adults with Hidden Challenges

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When we think about speech-language therapy, we often picture young children learning to pronounce their sounds correctly, build vocabulary, or put sentences together for the first time. But what about the young adults who made it through school undiagnosed, unassisted, and now in their 20s who are quietly struggling to hold jobs, navigate relationships, or

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