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Embedding Evidence-Based Practice in Speech and Language Therapy: International Examples

Embedding Evidence-Based Practice in Speech and Language Therapy: International Examples

by HazelRoddam (Editor), JemmaSkeat (Editor)

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Synopsis

Like all health professionals, speech and language therapists(SLTs) need to keep themselves up-to-date with the researchevidence base that is relevant to their field of practice and beable to show how this contributes to their clinicaldecision-making. However, it is not always clear to practitionershow evidence-based practice (EBP) can be properly embedded in theirday-to-day activities. In this valuable book, Hazel Roddam andJemma Skeat present a wealth of instructive examples by SLTcontributors from around the world, showing how clinicians,educators, and researchers have risen to the EBP challenge. Embedding evidence-based practice in speech and languagetherapy showcases the creative ways that SLTs are developingknowledge and skills for EBP, creating contexts that support theuse of evidence in practice, and working towards making evidenceeasily accessible and usable. It includes real-life examples of howSLTs have encountered a clinical problem or situation and haveaccessed and used the evidence within their day-to-day practice.The contributors come from a wide range of work settings, fromservices situated within large organizations to those inindependent practice, and represent a range of clinical areas, frompaediatric to adult and across speech, language, voice, fluency,Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), anddysphagia. This book is written for an audience of clinical practitioners,at any stage of their career, and is additionally a valuableresource for SLT students and lecturers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 246
 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 19 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0470743298
ISBN 13: 9780470743294

Media Reviews
Because of the importance and immediate reference of the topic to current clinical practice as well as the transferable methods described, this book would be a vaulable resource for a wide range of readers - students, newly qualified therapists, lecturers, experienced therapists and managers. (Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, 1 March 2011)
Author Bio
Dr Hazel Roddam is an experienced speech and languagetherapist, having worked in the field of paediatric special needsand AAC in the UK for over 25 years. Her PhD investigated thefactors that influence the use of research in speech and languagetherapy. Since 2006 Hazel has worked at The University of CentralLancashire in the north-west of England, where she supervisesresearch students across the allied health professions. Herresearch interests continue to focus on professional issuesincluding promoting evidence-based practice, evaluating the impactof new roles, new ways of working and skill mix in therapy teams. Dr Jemma Skeat is a speech pathologist and researcher.Her clinical background is in assessment, diagnosis and earlyintervention for children with speech and language disorders,including children with multiple and complex needs. Her PhDexplored issues around the implementation and use of outcomemeasures by clinical speech pathologists, and her current researchinterests include evidence-based practice and outcome measurementin paediatric clinical services, and the use of services byfamilies of children with speech and language needs. She currentlyholds an Australian National Health and Medical Research CouncilPostdoctoral Fellowship at the Murdoch Children's ResearchInstitute in Melbourne, Australia.