Discuss alternatives to traditional service delivery models with adolescents. Use examples. What ...

An alternative may include indirect intervention. For example, close collaboration and consultation among all professionals who interact with an adolescent is essential for a unified and integrated intervention program. Some other alternatives may include:
(a) Students may be seen for an entire time period on a regularly scheduled basis, often five days a week corresponding with other academic class schedules. As with other classes, the students are generally seen in groups, although these groups are much smaller than the usual academic class. Small-group sessions facilitate interaction and communication practice. Furthermore, students can work on comprehension, production, and metalinguistic skills simultaneously.
(b) The intervention period can actually be added as a course in the school's curriculum.
(c) Classroom teachers and specialists with expertise in language (e.g., speech-language pathologist, learning disabilities teacher) to team in the students' classrooms.