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 speech-language services will be consistent throughout school districts in the state, that speech-language pathologists will have improved understanding of their professional responsibilities, and that administrators will have improved understanding of the responsibilities and qualifications of speech-language pathologists. The guidelines address: (1) clarification of federal definitions; (2) child identification, location, and evaluation; (3) classification guidelines; (4) service delivery; (5) termination of services; and (6) general audiological services. Appendices make up most of the document and include a language arts core curriculum for grades K-6, a flowchart of the Individualized Education Program process, samples of Child Find procedures and prereferral assessment documents, information on English as a Second Language students, considerations in testing and sample evaluation forms, sample evaluation team reports, information on traumatic brain injury, normative data on speech production, and assessment needs for augmentative alternative communication devices. (Contains 22 references.) (JDD)