With a new chapter on evaluating research articles, the fourth edition of Clinical Research
Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology continues to be an essential …

Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders: Methods for Systematic Inquiry,
Fourth Edition is a comprehensive yet comprehendible text meant for instructors and …

Successful relationships are based on mutual understanding and respect. The same is true
for the relationship between research and clinical practice. Research informs clinical …

Clinical practices in speech-language pathology and audiology should be both theoretically
motivated and grounded in empirical evidence. To ensure that clinical practices keep pace …

Purpose This commentary is written in response to a companion paper by Nan Bernstein
Ratner (Evidence-Based Practice: An Examination of its Ramifications for the Practice of …

Speech and language pathologists, like all professionals who claim to be scientific in their
practice, make a public commitment to operate on the basis of knowledge derived in …

Through a variety of approaches, speech-language pathologists and audiologists have
produced strong evidence that treatments are generally potent. However, we have largely …

Purpose Practice-based research is proposed as an additional way to bridge the divide
between research and practice. Method The article compares the traditional, laboratory …

Purpose The purpose was to examine and determine effect size distributions reported in
published audiology and speech-language pathology research in order to provide …

Purpose A first objective was to provide an overview of advantages and cautions around so-
called retrospective clinical studies. A second objective was to provide guidelines for strong …