Should my shirt be tucked in or left out? The communication context of adolescence

Adolescence is a time of significant psychosocial development. Sophisticated communication skills also emerge during this time, helping adolescents to meet increasingly complex social needs. These developments shape the functional communication goals for adolescents with traumatic brain (TBI). The purpose of this paperis to present the major characteristics of psychosocial development in adolescence, and to relate this information to adolescents with TBI. Data on daily social communication in adolescence are also presented, to complement the psychosocial data and facilitate the identification of functional communication goals.