Functional assessment of communication: Implications for the rehabilitation of aphasic people: Reply to carol frattali

Carol Frattali's paper makes it clear that a powerful motivation for developing improved measures of functional communication is the need to satisfjr funders of the service: Functional assessment has gained popularity in rehabilitative and long-term care in the United States, not as a direct result of its clinical usefulness, but rather as a reaction to cost pressures (p. 67).