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Communication assessment

from Psychology, health and illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2014

By
Linda Worrall
Edited by
Susan Ayers ,
Andrew Baum ,
Chris McManus ,
Stanton Newman ,
Kenneth Wallston ,
John Weinman  and
Robert West
Linda Worrall
Affiliation:
The University of Queensland
Susan Ayers
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Andrew Baum
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Chris McManus
Affiliation:
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
Stanton Newman
Affiliation:
University College and Middlesex School of Medicine
Kenneth Wallston
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
John Weinman
Affiliation:
United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's
Robert West
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
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Summary

This chapter outlines how a speech and language therapist might assess communication disability. It firstly describes the different approaches to communication and communication disability, and then uses a biopsychosocial approach using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Organization, 2001) as a conceptual framework for communication disability assessment. The different types and purposes of assessment for speech and language therapists are outlined and examples of communication assessments are provided throughout. The description of communication disabilities and assessments is by necessity brief and avoids the use of profession-specific terms. Readers are referred to texts by Haynes and Pindzola (1998) or Ruscello (2001) for more detailed information on communication disability assessment.

The study of communication and communication disabilities is often interdisciplinary involving audiologists, neuropsychologists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, linguists, neurologists, physiologists, neurophysiologists, otolaryngologists and speech and language therapists, to name a few. In most countries of the world, however, it is the responsibility of speech and language therapists to provide services to people with communication disabilities. While hearing impairment is also a communication disability, audiologists have the expertise to assess this area. Speech and language therapists view communication holistically and may use a modality approach (verbal, nonverbal or written) to communication, a linguistic approach (phonetic, phonological, semantic, syntactical and pragmatic), or an information processing or psycholinguistic approach (e.g. input and output modular systems).

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Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine , pp. 242 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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