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Otterbein, Leo E. – Learning Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1984
An analysis of errors in written language as indicators of communication disorders reviews problems with assumptions that writing and spelling are phonetically based. A six-stage model of written language reduction is proposed that helps to analyze and type errors according to such classifications as neuromuscular, phonographic, and duplication…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMadison, Charles L.; Hays, Lynette D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1981
A management system is developed to aid the communication disorders specialist in diagnosis, case load selection, and service delivery in Head Start programs. Three priority levels are established that are consistent with the Head Start definition of a communication disorder with Head Start program philosophy. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Disability Identification, Management Information Systems, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedRatner, Nan Bernstein – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article discusses diagnostic considerations in identifying coexisting communication disorders and in differentiating between stuttering and secondary fluency disorders related to language formulation. Options for structuring therapy for coexisting problems are evaluated, including blended, lagged, and cycled approaches. Concerns implicit in…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Disability Identification
Peer reviewedWolf-Schein, Enid G. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
This paper discusses assessment of autistic and deaf-blind children with such severe difficulties in communication that they are often labeled as untestable and subsequently misdiagnosed as severely to profoundly mentally retarded. It urges nonintrusive assessment and appropriate intervention as the most relevant procedures for helping this…
Descriptors: Autism, Communication Disorders, Daily Living Skills, Deaf Blind
Download full textNational Inst. on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, Bethesda, MD. – 1998
This information packet presents materials which focus on early identification of hearing impairment in infants and young children to prevent speech and language delays. A glossary of terms is followed by a summary of results of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference (1993) concerning early identification of hearing…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech, Disability Identification
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 2001
This handbook is designed for use by trained educational diagnosticians and special educators as they go about the complex task of identifying students with perceptual/communicative disabilities (PCD) and determining eligibility for special education services. Section 1 of the text discusses federal criteria for determining the existence of a…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Disorders, Communication Problems, Disability Identification
Connecticut Birth to Three System, Hartford. – 1998
This document presents guidelines for differential diagnosis and eligibility determination under Connecticut's Birth to Three System for young children with communication problems, usually delayed speech. An executive summary presents a rationale and recommendation locator in the form of a matrix of communication problems, the eligibility…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech, Developmental Delays
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. Special Education Services Unit. – 1991
These guidelines outline procedures for the communication disorders specialist/speech-language pathologist employed in the Utah public schools. The guidelines are designed to ensure that all students with communication disorders, ages 3-21, will be provided with appropriate speech-language services in the public schools, that the criteria for…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders, Curriculum, Disability Identification
Masters, M. Gay; Stecker, Nancy A.; Katz, Jack – 1998
This book offers the latest available information on central auditory processing disorders (CAPDs) drawn from a State University of New York at Buffalo conference on CAPDs in September of 1996. It is divided into three parts: introduction, management approaches, and specific methods and populations. Chapters include: (1) "Overview and Update…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Discrimination
