Back to school: why the speech-language pathologist belongs in the classroom

With a mean sentence length of 17.33 words and a clausal density score of 2.44, the passage requires the reader to process long and complex sentences that contain multiple levels of embedding-factors that may tax a person's verbal working memory. [...] the passage requires the reader to understand personification (built-in smarts, talk to each other), metacognitive verbs (inspect, determine), morphologically complex nouns (interconnection, configuration, capability), adverbial conjuncts (therefore, classically, for example), Aristotelian definitions (a router is any piece of hardware or software thatI), and specialized acronyms (TCP, IP, LANS, WANS).