Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, presents the case of Andrea, a 13-year, 9-month-old 8th-grade student who has received language therapy since elementary school and continues to demonstrate challenges with auditory and reading comprehension. While vocabulary remains an area of need, Andrea is beginning to show growth in deriving word meaning from context and recognizing when she does not know a word and needs to stop and learn it. Her most significant barrier to comprehension is difficulty with complex morphosyntactic structures, including verb voice and clause structure, which impact her ability to understand and use language across academic tasks.
In this longitudinal Child Language Case Study, you will examine Andrea’s language profile over time, including the strategies she used earlier in her development and how her intervention has evolved as academic demands increased. The session highlights morphosyntactic weaknesses among older students, how these challenges affect comprehension and classroom performance, and how to prioritize targets that support meaningful academic participation.
You’ll leave with practical language intervention strategies to address complex syntax, along with ideas for collaboration to align therapy with classroom instruction. Because students must be successful in their daily work at school, this session emphasizes functional, school-relevant goals and shared problem-solving with educators to support carryover and real-world impact.
In this longitudinal Child Language Case Study, you will examine Andrea’s language profile over time, including the strategies she used earlier in her development and how her intervention has evolved as academic demands increased. The session highlights morphosyntactic weaknesses among older students, how these challenges affect comprehension and classroom performance, and how to prioritize targets that support meaningful academic participation.
You’ll leave with practical language intervention strategies to address complex syntax, along with ideas for collaboration to align therapy with classroom instruction. Because students must be successful in their daily work at school, this session emphasizes functional, school-relevant goals and shared problem-solving with educators to support carryover and real-world impact.
