Sourcebook for Adults with Profound Communication Difficulties

FIONA SUGDEN-BEST qualified as a Speech Language therapist from City University London, in 1988 where she returned to study for an MSc in Communication Disorders in 1993. She initially worked in a general position for Newham Health Authority before working at the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability for seven and a half years, managing predominanty a progressive neurological client group and providing cover on the rehabilitation wards, including a minimally responsive unit. She has also worked as Senior Speech Language Therapist for acude neurosciences at The Royal London and Barts NHS Trust and as adult team co-ordinator for Redbridge Healthcare, covering a domicilliary caseload. She currently works as Head Speech Language Therapist a the Children's Trust. Fiona has always been actively involved in educating others, including speech language therapists.

Oromotor exercises for face, lip, tongue, jaw and palate; artificulation sheets for each sound in initial medial and final positions as appropriate. Language assessments where clients require only a reliiable yes/no response to answer syntactically complex questions; an AAC screening form. Handouts questionnaire and breathing sheets to hand to carers to explain the type of communication difficulty their dependant is experiencing.