Background Many speech sound disorder (SSD) interventions with a long‐term evidence
base are 'new'to clinical practice, and the role of services in supporting or constraining …

Abstract Determining the optimal amount of intervention is possibly the biggest challenge
facing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) today. Baker (2012) has provided an erudite …

Evaluating the evidence of treatment efficacy allows clinicians to select the delivery of the
intervention that is most likely to improve the patient outcomes for a given clinical condition …

Background: Sure Start has been a flagship policy for the UK Labour Government since
1998. Its aim was to improve the life chances of children under five years of age who live in …

Background Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a condition which affects an
individual's ability to use and understand language. Terminological confusion, and the use …

Three theses are developed in this article. First, although they share the common goal of
striving toward the best intervention services possible, clinical practice and experimental …

Many speech and language therapy (SLT) services have limited capacity for providing
school-based input. Some offer commissioned SLT input, to enhance the service provided …

Background: Within medicine there is an agreed hierarchy of levels of research evidence
with randomized controlled trials at the top and expert opinion at the bottom. When …

Background: Randomized control trials and the use of meta‐analysis in systematic reviews
are the basis of evidence‐based practice. The paper reviews their use in the development of …

This book for speech and language therapists explains interventions for increasing the
communication skills of adolescents and adults who have learning disabilities or mild mental …