Human society is organised through communicative interactions between co-present
people. Speech pathology (SP) assessment and intervention strategies aim to access these …

Without timely feedback about client progress, practitioners grossly underestimate negative
outcomes. Accordingly, they are less likely to make the adjustments necessary to forestall …

Primary objective: This is the first qualitative study that elicited the perceptions of both
psychological therapists and their clients in the use of Clinical Outcomes in Routine …

Empirical evidence exists for many of the different interventions in speech-language
pathology. However, relatively little is known about the optimal intensity of those …

Background Measuring, assessing and managing outcomes in school practice
environments is difficult due to the complex nature of school communities as well as the …

Surveys of speech-language pathologists who work with people with aphasia indicate that
they view the large number of existing measures to be a barrier to using discourse analysis …

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) assess health outcomes from the patient's
perspective. The National Institutes of Health has invested in the creation of numerous …

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) facilitates a wide
range of research in speech-language pathology. In addition to framing the development of …

While the benefits of routine outcome measurement have been extolled and to some degree
researched, it is surprising that service user opinions on this common therapy practice have …

Voice practitioners require an objective index of dysphonia severity as a means to reliably
track treatment outcomes. To ensure ecological validity however, such a measure should …