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This book is written with occupational therapy students in mind, as a guide to newly qualified occupational therapists and for those returning to work after a break in service.

Draws together the key issues related to pre-school identification and screening of children with speech and language impairment, examining the complexities inherent in identifying these children. Coverage includes early communication development, cognitive skills, behaviour problems and hearing.

Focuses on practical ways of enhancing communication between health professionals and their patients or clients and between those professionals and their colleagues. Covered are educational, therapeutic, organizational and personal skills, and each section contains a skills checklist.

Taking a broad perspective, this book offers an educational approach to spinal cord injury managment in which the client becomes an active participant.

This book is both an introductory text to the rehabilitation of stroke for student therapists and a reference text for qualified therapists. These chapters provide an introduction to the condition of stroke itself, the problern therapists face in assessing and treating stroke patients and therapeutic approaches in occu pational therapy.