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Author(s) -
Cross
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
child and family social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1365-2206
pISSN - 1356-7500
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2206.1999.00122.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , communication skills , medicine , medical education , physics , quantum mechanics
The literature suggests that many children suffer from both emotional and behavioural problems and speech and language difficulties. There are also many children with emotional and behavioural problems who have undetected communication difficulties ( Cohen et al . 1993). Undetected communication problems have previously been found in child psychiatric populations (Giddan et al . 1996) and special educational classes for children with emotional and behavioural problems (Burgess & Bransby 1990). A small‐scale study reported here also found ‘looked after’ children who had previously unsuspected communication difficulties. This paper considers why communication problems and emotional and behavioural difficulties often occur together and then reflects on the implications of undetected communication problems for the care of such children. Since communication problems impact on emotional and educational development, there are also suggestions of ways to identify speech and language difficulties in school‐age children.