Writing letters of referral to other professionals or service agencies for clients is an everyday
practice of speech-language pathologists. Such letters precede clients and establish a …

Conveying information to clients has a variety of purposes in professional–client
interactions. It has a clear relationship to client access to participation in the decisions made …

Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use a variety of discourse genres for their various
activities. They engage in different types of oral discourse depending on who they are …

Purpose To outline an expanded framework for clinical practice in speech-language
pathology. This framework broadens the focus on discipline-specific knowledge and infuses …

The issue of client-professional boundaries in speech-language therapy (SLT) practice has
only rarely been considered in the SLT literature. This paper summarises general guidelines …

In Professional Communication in Speech-Language Pathology: How to Write, Talk, and Act
Like a Clinician, Fourth Edition, the authors introduce student clinicians to the various types …

While most clinicians and researchers in the field of speech-language pathology would
agree that the positive relationships between clinicians and their clients can be central to …

Teams of speech-language pathologists, interpreters, and clients were asked to respond to
a survey about the characteristics of an effective conference where the results of a speech …

Few studies have explored clinician-client relationships in speech-language treatment for
children, although evidence indicates that these relationships may be important. Parents …

This paper expands on the lead article by Hersh (2010) regarding a number of challenges
that face speech-language pathologists (SLPs) when ending therapy, in this case focusing …