Contains guidelines for practitioners providing counselling services to clients with
disabilities, and those with complex communication needs.

Providing effective interventions for individuals with severe intellectual disabilities (ID)
continues to challenge educators, speech-language pathologists, and other allied health …

Background Patients with speech disabilities can present with challenges when
communicating during primary-care clinical encounters. Little is known about the healthcare …

Purpose: This study aimed to explore how adults with severe acquired communication
difficulties experience and make decisions about the communication methods they use. The …

Speech and language impairments can result in communication disabilities that can affect
clients' capacity to read, write and participate in conversations and social situations.

This keynote address begins with a discussion of the difference between words and action,
directed specifically to the practitioner's task of meeting the communication needs of children …

Abstract The National Joint Committee for the Communication Needs of People With Severe
Disabilities (NJC) reviewed literature regarding practices for people with severe disabilities …

Speech-language pathologists were surveyed with an instrument created from The National
Joint Committee for the Communicative Needs of Persons with Severe Disabilities' quality …

The responsiveness to intervention (RTI) process is a multitiered approach to providing
services and interventions to struggling learners at increasing levels of intensity. It involves …

This manual presents an assessment instrument designed to help teachers, educational
specialists, speech-language therapists, psychologists, and other service providers evaluate …