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 …

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 …

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

University of Cincinnati, OH critical need of clinicians is to find or design intervention
procedures that produce improved communication. Developing effective treatment methods …

Objective: The purpose of this scoping review is to provide an overview of empirical
research regarding the therapeutic relationship between speech-language pathologists and …

Three major types of treatment research methodologies are described. Studies on child
language intervention are reviewed as examples of trends and methodological issues …

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 …

The aim of this work was to critically examine the methodological quality of recent treatment
research in speech–language pathology, focusing specifically on group-design studies …

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: Most evidence-based clinical research findings in communication sciences and
disorders never achieve full implementation by practicing clinicians. To address this almost …