Background Multiple interventions have been developed to address speech sound disorder
(SSD) in children. Many of these have been evaluated but the evidence for these has not …

The identification of developmental problems in a child's acquisition of speech, language
and/or communication is a core activity in child surveillance. These are common difficulties …

Background Oral language skills are a critical foundation for literacy and more generally for
educational success. The current study shows that oral language skills can be improved by …

Background Indirect speech and language therapy, such as parent‐implemented
intervention, has been shown to be an effective approach for young children with speech …

Abstract Language is a complex multidimensional cognitive system that is connected to
many neurocognitive capacities. The development of language is therefore strongly …

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between components of evidence-based
practice (clinical expertise, patient perspective and research evidence). Method: Findings …

A central conceptual change in the Warnock report, the first type report of a UK government
committee on the education of children and young people with all types of special …

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a well-established framework for supporting clinical
decision making in the discipline of speech-language pathology. The benefits of using …

This work reports the results of a survey study conducted with French-, German-, and Italian-
speaking speech and language therapists (SLTs) in Switzerland. In this survey we asked …

Abstract Background Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have a
significant deficit in spoken language ability which affects their communication skills …