Introduction: Children with intellectual disabilities have lifelong disabilities that affect almost all areas of their functioning. One of these areas is communication. Communication problems can lead to them taking a passive role in life, which can subsequently lead to aggression and inappropriate behavior. Occupational therapists and speech therapists can use their knowledge, experience, competences, and mutual cooperation to improve children’s communication skills. Purpose: The purpose of this diploma work is to explore the challenges of communicating with children with intellectual disabilities and how we can encourage and support them to express and emphasize the importance of interprofessional cooperation between occupational therapists and speech therapists. Methods: Qualitative research was used. We conducted four semi-structured, individual interviews. The sample was purposive. We interviewed two occupational therapists and two speech therapists. Based on the data obtained from the interviews, we made a qualitative content analysis. Results: The results of the research are presented in four themes: communication with children with intellectual disabilities, promoting communication with children with intellectual disabilities, interprofessional cooperation between occupational therapists and speech therapists in promoting communication, and the impact of promoting communication on everyday life of children with intellectual disabilities. Discussion and conclusion: Occupational therapists and speech therapists face a number of challenges in their work with children with intellectual disabilities, which they successfully solve. They use many strategies and tools in their work, based on the knowledge and experience they have gained. The interaction between occupational therapists and speech therapists makes sense, as each has a lot of knowledge in their field, and together they can use this knowledge and experience for the benefit of the user. It would be useful to discuss this at universities so that it would be easier to get in touch with experts from other fields in the workplace.
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