Editorial: Research and practice in the language and communication needs of adolescents in secondary education

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Clegg J. , Hollis C. , Mawhood L. and Rutter M. ( 2005) Developmental language disorders: A follow-up in later adult life: Cognitive, language and psychosocial outcomes. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 46: 128-49.

Conti-Ramsden G. , Durkin K. , Simkin Z. and Knox E. (2009) Specific language impairment and school outcomes, I: Identifying and explaining variability at the end of compulsory education. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44: 15-35.

Durkin K. , Simkin Z. , Knox E. and Conti-Ramsden G. (2009) Specific language impairment and school outcomes, II: Educational context, student satisfaction, and post-compulsory progress. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44: 36-55.

Durkin K. and Conti-Ramsden G. ( 2007) Language, social behaviour, and the quality of friendships in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment . Child Development 78: 1441-57.

Lindsay G. , Dockrell JE and Strand S. ( 2007) Longitudinal patterns of behaviour problems in children with specific speech and language difficulties: child and contextual factors . British Journal of Educational Psychology 77: 811-28.

Locke A. , Ginsborg J. and Peers I. ( 2002) Development and disadvantage: implications for the early years and beyond. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 37: 3-15.

Myers L. and Botting N. ( 2008) Literacy in the mainstream inner-city school: Its relationship to spoken language. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 24: 94-114.

Palikara O. , Lindsay G. and Dockrell JE ( 2009) Voices of young people with a history of specific language impairment (SLI) in the first year of post-16 education. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 44: 55-78.

Snowling MJ , Adams JW , Bishop DVM and Stothard S. ( 2001) Educational attainments of school leavers with a preschool history of speech-language impairments. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 36: 173-83.

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