Speech-language clinicians should offer specific suggestions to classroom teachers for dealing with language handicapped children. Suggestions may touch upon listening behavior, classroom emotional climate, as well as specific techniques for talking with children (modeling, expatiation, expansion). Specific activity ideas may also be offered. (CL)

A speech therapist discusses an approach that combines articulation and language skills beginning with sounds and progressing through multisensory activities to words, phrases, sentences, controlled conversation, and free-flowing conversation. The approach uses therapy based in speech therapy's historical foundations. (CL)

A British therapy administrator comments on the role of speech therapists in providing services to children with special needs and bilingual children. The therapist's role on the interdisciplinary team is reviewed, particularly regarding the assessment implication of the Warnock Report and The 1981 Education Act. (CL)

The article describes a strategy used to teach sign communication to severely handicapped students in the classroom. It recommends that the speech-language pathologist adopt a consultant role in service delivery. (Author)

The paper describes one application of D. Ling's principles and methods in the context of the overall speech program at a school for the hearing impaired. The program features an interdisciplinary approach, consisting of inservice training and specific program design. (Author)

The purpose of this comprehensive bibliography (approximately 200 items) is to facilitate the clinician's role in assessing and planning intervention for speech production of hard-of-hearing and deaf individuals. This set of references is alphabetized by separate categories that include articles, books, chapters in books and monographs. Consulting…

The PDQ Project, Planning and Development of Quality Services in the Schools, was an effort by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to provide public school personnel working with communication-disordered children with information and training related to better management. The report summarizes program objectives and outcomes including…

The paper examines decisionmaking guidelines for devising a microcomputer-aided augmentative communication device for non-vocal severely handicapped students. Four considerations are addressed: (1) candidates for microcomputer-based augmentative communication devices (motor development, sensory abilities, cognitive development); (2) instruction…

The study investigated the status of clinician services to limited- and non-English proficient (LEP/NEP) children with communication disorders. Surveys of speech/language pathologists, school districts, and professional organizations were undertaken. Results revealed the prevalence by type of communication disorders (language disorders were the…

The role and responsibility of the speech and language specialist in implementing IEPs (individualized education programs) for handicapped students are examined. (CL)

The use of nonspeech symbol sets (including manual signs and Blyssymbols) in language intervention with mentally retarded students is discussed. The selection and use of aided or unaided nonspeech symbol sets are considered, along with cognitive, sociocommunicative, technological, and motoric factors. (CL)

The article summarizes a demographic profile of 494 learning disabled students who also exhibited related communication disorders and the impact of this population on speech-language and hearing services. Racial and sexual factors are also examined. (Author/CL)