This article provides an example of some current collaborative trends in
language intervention. The authors are the speech-language pathologist
and the parents of the child involved in intervention, a child with a
pervasive developmental disorder with autistic features in the context of
a Fetal Dilantin Syndrome. We describe both his development from age
4 to 6 and the therapeutic process we have undertaken.
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