Working with Pragmatics: A Practical Guide to Promoting Communicative Confidence (Working With... Series)

This title covers the principles and practice of pragmatics. It offers an opportunity to explore this subject with confidence and to plan intervention programmes for effective management. It offers practical pragmatic teaching activities to develop communication skills. Assessment and diagnostic measures are provided which, together with many activity ideas, make this an essential resource. It includes a photocopiable client-centred assessment form, photocopiable child and client information sheets and a list of characteristics of pragmatic dysfunction. It is a welcome addition to the materials available to professionals planning therapy and teaching programmes using this approach.

Lucie Anderson-Wood qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1984. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England. Benita Rae Smith has worked as a speech and language therapist since 1958 and from 1971 she has also taught student clinicians in Leicester, England. Lucie and Rae have both worked as senior lecturers in speech pathology at De Montfort University, Leicester, England and have been tutors on the University of Birmingham, School of Education distance learning course in speech and language difficulties.