Abstract
Assessments were made of the speech/language and communication skills of a sample of 6–12 year-old intellectually handicapped ()moderately and severely retarded) special-school pupils, and their need for specialist help in the communication area was assessed by the children's teachers and parents. It was found that the children showed little or no progress with age in articulation and social communication skills, but that sentence construction skills and vocabulary comprehension did show some continuing improvement with age. Fewer than half of the children had had any contact at all with a speech therapist ()and in most of these cases such contact had been of a very limited nature), and the results are discussed in terms of parents' and teachers' beliefs regarding the children's need for regular speech therapy services.
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