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Communication Disorders Quarterly
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Analysis of the Expressive and Receptive Language Characteristics of Emotionally Handicapped Students Served in Public School Settings

Kathy L. Ruhl

The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA

Charles A. Hughes

The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA

Stephen M. Camarata

Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

Until the past few years, language characteristics of students receiving services for mild/moderate behavior disorders (BD) have been neglected for research on the language of the more severely disturbed population. However, recent investigations of the language characteristics of mild/moderately BD students have produced sufficient evidence to warrant further study. The purpose of the present study was to examine the language skills (i.e., morphology, syntax, and semantics) of a group of 30 mild/moderately BD students served in public school, resource classrooms. Overall results from the Test of Language Development-Intermediate (TOLD-I) (Hammill & Newcomer, 1982), the Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language-Revised (TACL-R) (Carrow-Woolfolk, 1985), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) (Dunn & Dunn, 1982), and the Expressive One Word Vocabulary Test (EOWVT) (Gardner, 1979) revealed that the BD students fell a minimum of one standard deviation below the normative mean on all but one (i.e., Word Classes and Relations subtest of the TACL-R) of the measures. Further within subject analyses indicated the students were having difficulty with both receptive and expressive language. These findings substantiate the fact that mild/moderate BD students should be considered at risk for language disorders.

Communication Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2, 165-176 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/152574019201400205
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