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‘INSURING’ A CORRECT DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS ‐ A ‘FORENSIC’ COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE
Author(s) -
Abudarham Sam,
White Alfred
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682820109177859
Subject(s) - psychology , damages , action (physics) , accident (philosophy) , speech therapist , psychotherapist , psychiatry , applied psychology , speech therapy , audiology , medicine , law , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , political science
Mr. J was referred to a speech and language therapist (SLT) by a consultant psychiatrist. He had sustained an industrial accident which he claimed was responsible for a range of problems which included a speech and language problem. Some three years after his accident, he brought an action for damages arising out of the accident. His solicitor, on the recommendation of, the consultant psychiatrist, contacted the SLT requesting his views as to whether Mr. J's speech difficulties were due to the injuries sustained and requesting recommendations for further treatment. The SLT saw Mr. J and concluded that he had problems at all communication levels, the greatest being an articulatory impairment. Some reports' suggested a psychological basis for his problems and others, including the psychiatrists', suggested an organic basis.