Language and Literacy in Young People
YOUTH JUSTICE
Members of LANGUAGE AND LITERACY IN YOUNG PEOPLE are working with the Banksia Hill NHMRC funded research team at Telethon Kids Institute investigating the communication skills of adolescents in youth justice, many of whom have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
For further information on the Banksia Hill Study:
Completed HDR project (PhD thesis):
Natalie Kippin. (2021). Oral and written communication skills of adolescents in youth justice with and without prenatal alcohol exposure
https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/85447
OPEN ACCESS publications from Natalie’s PhD:
Kippin, N.R., Leitão, S., Watkins, R., & Finlay-Jones, A. (2021). Oral and written communication skills of adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) compared with those with no/low PAE: A systematic review. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 56, 694-718. Doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12644
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.12644
Kippin, N.R., Leitão, S., Finlay-Jones, A., Baker, J., & Watkins, R. The oral and written narrative language skills of adolescent students in youth detention and the impact of language disorder. Journal of Communication Disorders, 90, 106088. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106088
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021992421000113
Kippin, N.R., Leitão, S., Watkins, R., Finlay-Jones, A., Condon, C., Marriott, R., Mutch, R.C., & Bower, C. (2018). Language diversity, language disorder and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among youth sentenced to detention in Western Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 61, 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2018.09.004
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252718301602?via%3Dihub
Kippin, N., Elliott, E., & Thorne, J. (2020). Social communication problems among children with FASD: Fact sheet for health professionals 3. https://www.fasdhub.org.au/siteassets/blocks/clinical-tip-sheets/social-communication-problems_final_6april2020.pdf