The Urgent Need to Address Workforce Readiness in Adolescent Literacy Intervention

The literacy skills adolescents now need to be successful in school and the workplace are much different from those of 20 years ago. Today, adolescents must engage in high literacy to achieve in the competitive, 21st century, global marketplace. In this article, the authors discuss workforce readiness as a framework for delivering literacy intervention that has the potential to make a significant impact on the success of adolescents who struggle. They address specific contributions of speech-language pathologists in this arena.