Functional assessment of communication: Merging public policy with clinical views

摘要: Abstract Functional assessment—the measurement of an individual's ability to perforni daily life activities despite disease, disorder, or impairment-is becoming a vital supplement traditional clinical assessment batteries in rehabilitation. From perspective, functional seems bridge the gap between identifying specific behaviours, and evaluating how those behaviours affect function natural contexts (Holland 1980; Sarno 1983; Beukelman et al., 1984; Aten 1986; Frattali Lynch 1989; Hartley 1990; Kao 1990). public policy takes on added import, providing means set reimbursement rates, determine eligibility for services, measure quality long-tern1 rehabilitative care (Hosek Kane 1987; Health Care Financing Administration Cornelius