Communication and Adults with Learning Disabilities by Anna v... - 9781870332279

Communication and Adults with Learning Disabilities\n\nAnna van der Gaag (Author), Klara Dormandy (Author)\n\n9781870332279, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 27 July 1993\n\n282 pages\n25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.425 kg\n\nThough working with people with learning difficulties has become an increasingly important speciality for the speech therapist, much of the rationale for this work has yet to be established. Practitioners are still evaluating their role in working with the learning disabled, and are trying to develop appropriate models of assessment and intervention.\nThis book is intended to aid speech therapists in this task by providing ideas based on an ideology in keeping with the current trends in services to people with learning difficulties. After critically examining existing methods, the authors draw on their combined experience in linguistics and ethnography to provide a rationale and operational guidelines to deal with assessment, intervention, establishing criteria for]