Communication skills and adults with learning disabilities: eliminating professional myopia

A van der Gaag - British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
There can be little doubt that effective communication is of crucial relevance to the quality of
life of individuals with learning disabilities. What is much less certain is how 'effective …

Using an interdisciplinary approach to training to develop the quality of communication with adults with profound learning disabilities by care staff

S Dobson, S Upadhyaya… - International Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The study examines the effects of training on care staff's communication to service users with
profound and severe learning disabilities. An interdisciplinary therapeutic training …

Grappling with collaboration: would opening up the research 'base'help?

J Forbes - British Journal of Special Education, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Richard Rose, writing in this journal in his role as Research Section Editor (BJSE, Volume
29, Number 1), argued that teachers should learn to do research in collaboration with other …

How shall we be judged? Speech and language therapists in educational settings

E McCartney, A van der Gaag - Child Language Teaching …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
Speech and language therapists are under ever-increasing pressure to demonstrate the
value of their work, both in terms of cost to the pur chaser and benefit to the client. The work …

Problem solving in small multidisciplinary teams: a means of improving the quality of the communication environment for people with profound learning disability

S Dobson, S Dodsworth, M Miller - British Journal of Learning …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Nurses and speech and language therapists who work with adults with profound learning
disabilities frequently experience difficulties with mutual interprofessional role expectations …

Teacher/therapist collaborations: Discourses, positionings and power relations at work

JC Forbes - 2003 - dspace.stir.ac.uk
The focus of this research is on the collaboration relationships of teachers and therapists
working in school-based provision for pupils with language and communication disorders …