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CAHE Best Evidence Corner

 

CAHE logoIn a new initiative CAHE is offering a Best Evidence Corner (BEC) aimed at addressing specific allied health areas. Initially the trial will run for three months focused on speech pathologists providing services to children with primary speech and/or language impairment.

 

The primary aim of this new service is to enhance the quality and safety of speech pathology services for children with primary speech and/or language impairment.  This will be achieved by facilitating speech pathologists use of the research evidence by providing a best evidence information corner.  This service will be provided to speech pathologists around the globe.

This initiative is designed to promote and encourage evidence-based practice in speech pathology by facilitating clinicians' ability and motivation to access the literature on intervention.  Clinicians can compose questions according to parameters of this trial initiative.  This is a three-month trial and the first stage focus of this trial is intervention based on the following question parameters. 

 

Question Parameters:

Models of service delivery and interventions for children (0-18 years) with primary speech and/or language impairment. Areas excluded are voice, stuttering and swallowing

Nature of questions

Questions need to be formulated based on the PICO format as outlined in the CAHE Journal Club section of this CAHE website.

Some example questions for consideration may be:

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The BEC webpage will contain question and response updates periodically.  Question authors will receive direct answers to their questions via email.

Numbers of questions

During this BEC trial period there will be a limit of three questions per week addressed from all sources and these will be answered on an 'as received' basis.

 

Who will be helping you?

CAHE is fortunate to have obtained the services of Dr Deborah James, internationally renowned speech renowned speech pathologist.

Biography: Dr Deborah James, PHD, M.BA, MA (APP LING), B APP SC (SP PATH), MSPA, CPSP

Debbie James is an academic researcher at the Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia, a Director of Novita Childrens Services (formerly the Crippled Childrens Association of SA Inc) and a director of the Channel 7 Childrens Research Foundation. Up until the end of 2007she was a senior lecturer in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Flinders University, She is a speech pathologist by primary training, and has a PhD, an MBA and an MA in Applied Linguistics. She has worked full-time in the profession of speech pathology for over 30 years, as a clinician, researcher, lecturer, consultant and advisor in the public and private sectors. She has specialised in the management of children with primary speech and language difficulties and as a clinician has held a number of positions at base grade and senior levels within the education, health, disability and university sectors. She currently teaches, researches and practises in paediatric speech pathology, specialising in the discipline specific areas of speech and language. Debbie is regularly invited to conduct seminars and workshops in professional workplaces and consult on speech pathology matters. She has evaluated speech pathology services, served on Ministerial Advisory Panels and accredited undergraduate and post-graduate speech pathology courses at Australian Universities.


Debbie has three areas of research interests childrens speech and language acquisition, development of tools to measure childrens speech and language and quality health care and outcomes measurement. She has attracted over $200,000 in research funding, has published papers in international peer reviewed journals on her research findings, and presented technical reports for industry funders and partners..
 

 

 

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