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Hands-on Clinic => Education => Topic started by: oliviahorn72 on Feb 4, 2020
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The trend toward the use of evidence-based practices is a direct result of the accountability movement in today's schools. Briefly describe the three implications of this trend included in the text.
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Collection of data. Speech/language therapists are expected to gather systematic data that can be used to judge the effectiveness of their strategies, their diagnostic procedures, and their methods for intervening.
Use of data for decision making. Interventions should be attempted or continued based on specific data related to the students with whom they are used and large-scale studies that document their impact. Strategies that are not supported by research should be discarded.
Professional education. Speech/language therapists need to be educated about the importance of evidence-based practices and the ways in which they should guide practices in public schools. Teachers and other educators need to know why these practices should be central to speech/language therapists' work, how teachers can participate in further developing evidence-based practices, and what these practices imply for students and their families.