A comprehensive and practical resource for all speech and language therapists and
students, this book covers all aspects of working with this client group. Written by the author …

This book for speech and language therapists explains interventions for increasing the
communication skills of adolescents and adults who have learning disabilities or mild mental …

This book focuses explicitly on therapeutic techniques developed from a social model
approach to disability and learning to live with difference. It describes theories, activities and …

Research shows a mismatch between what staff perceive to be important when helping
people express themselves and how they help them in reality, say Caroline Dalton and John …

Purpose: In spite of the catastrophic consequences of impaired communication skills on the
quality of human life, development of services for people with communication disabilities …

Background Historically speech and language therapy services for children have been
framed within a rehabilitative framework with explicit assumptions made about providing …

At a time when the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists is celebrating its 50th
anniversary I would like us to consider people in less developed countries (LDCs) with …

Communicating Quality (Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, 1996)
highlights the need to address the communications in use by significant others. As …

This research aimed to compare three different approaches to delivering a speech and
language therapy service to people with learning disabilities, in order to make …

The potential value of a framework enabling practitioners to conceptualise speech and
language therapy from a range of perspectives engendered by different theories about …