Counseling the Communicatively Disabled and Their Families: A Manual for Clinicians, Second Edition, written by George H. Shames, emphasizes the development of specific interviewing and counseling skills for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, which is a requirement of ASHA's clinical certification standards. The book offers a clear, basic definition of counseling, then builds a picture of the multidimensional role of counseling in speech-language pathology and audiology using anecdotal references to clinical cases. Among the changes in the Second Edition, Dr. Shames, a licensed speech-language pathologist as well as a licensed clinical psychologist, has expanded the theoretical overviews that ground the "learning by doing" skill development feature of this updated edition. Practicing clinicians and students in communication disorders programs, in addition to social workers and clinical psychologists, will find this book invaluable to their training as focused, helpful evaluators and counselors of the communicatively disabled. It will also apply to training in other contexts and circumstances wherein counseling is appropriate.

This book gives equal sections to how the challenge is met by the family, the disabled person, and the counsellor.

Ce document porte sur la relation d'aide à établir avec les parents des enfants qui rencontrent des difficultés. Le counseling fait appel à la communication et aux relations interpersonnelles entre des individus. Plusieurs facteurs entrent en ligne de compte dans la communication et doivent être identifés pour permettre de bien comprendre les besoins, les aspirations ainsi que les attentes des interlocuteurs. L'écoute demeure cependant le fer de lance de l'action du counseling et de la relation d'aide. La relation d'aide permet aux parents de recevoir de l'information, de donner de l'information, de clarifier les informations et de changer, s'il le faut, les comportements et les attitudes pour permettre à l'enfant et à son entourage de s'adapter et de se développer.

Focuses on the interpersonal skills, attitudes and knowledge which the professional requires in order to work effectively with the parent of the disabled child. Models for the process of adaptation and the functioning of families which include children with disabilities are considered.

Text is designed to enable teachers to assist families of disabled persons in becoming full partners in the educational process. It addresses family dynamics, roles of parents and other family members, counseling, and communication techniques. Courses in Consultation in Special Education, Family Dynamics and Intervention, and Child and Family Studies.