Assessing Communication

Offering a practical assessment of functional communication, this work considers such areas as communication skills from the earliest interactions to Level One of the National Curriculum English, and an assessment of "how" and "what" a child is communicating.

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This work describes and includes a practical assessment of functional communication in four parts: it considers communication skills from the earliest interactions to the skills of children working within level one of the National Curriculum English; it also aims to enable the reader to build an assessment of "how" and "what" a child is communicating, and to assess a range of communication difficulties; a completed assessment supplies information to construct an individual, total communication system for each child, which can include sign, symbol and speech output devices; and the book should enable differing professionals to assess together using shared framework and to then plan realistic support for an individual child.