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Abstract
The format for a Communication Assessment Camp (CAC), originally developed for children with communication disorders, was adapted to meet the needs of a group of adolescents and young adults with developmental disability and their group home caregivers. The CAC provided an alternative form of speech pathology service delivery by offering comprehensive communication assessments and education of caregivers. The assessments were conducted by speech pathology students and special educators under the supervision of experienced speech pathologists. The information from the assessments was compared with that obtained from the caregivers about their perceptions of their clients' communicative-social skills. The present report discusses the modifications to the CAC that were necessary to provide a service for this group of clients. Overall, the CAC was deemed to be successful in providing assessments from which specific recommendations for intervention could be made. Problems were encountered in providing education for the caregivers about issues of communication impairment and intervention. In addition, the information obtained from the caregivers indicated some misperceptions about the skills of the clients. The implications for further modifications to the CAC format are discussed.