Background: Research into the practices of speech–language therapists in clinical sessions
is beginning to identify the way communication in clinical interactions both facilitates and …

The study investigated the impact of mastery of the Picture Exchange Communication
System (PECS) to Phase III, on the communications of children with autism. Children aged …

Videotapes were made of 43 staff‐client dyads in small‐scale residential and day service
settings. Frequency counts were made of carers' communicative acts, and two experienced …

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is being used increasingly with people with learning
disabilities. The evidence base to support these developments comes from uncontrolled …

Addressing the complex issue of what constitutes a communication enabling environment
for children with autism who use little or no speech, Potter and Whittaker show that the …

This study explored communication strategies adopted by staff nurses in a residential centre
in Ireland for persons with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. Interactions between …

Over the last 10 years as a speech and language therapist, working with adults with learning
disabilities and challenging behaviour, the author has noted the tendency of services to …

Previous studies have identified changes that front‐line service staff could usefully make to
enhance their communications and those of their clients who have intellectual disabilities …

Communication problems appear to be a defining feature of people with severe learning
disabilities. For example, nearly all attenders at a day centre in Avon were judged to have …

This paper is based on a qualitative research project on clinical work carried out at a
residential unit for adults with learning disability. Most pre‐verbal and nonverbal adults …