Summary:
Per our Code of Ethics, SLPs are required to implement evidence-based practice. Part of this requires knowing the research evidence. But with hundreds of journal articles published in SLPs’ scope of practice every single month, how are SLPs supposed to realistically wade through all that? In this lecture, we share a few resources for knowing the evidence, including ASHA’s Evidence Maps, SpeechBITE, and The Informed SLP. We will also discuss trends in the recent research, highlight some of our field’s most clinically useful research, and provide SLPs with tips and strategies for making applying the evidence to practice as easy and comfortable as possible.
 
Learning Objectives:
 
Attendees will be able to:

• Describe where and how to find SLP research.
• List available and reliable shortcuts to finding the most applicable research to a clinical question, quickly.
• Describe the results and clinical actionability of at least one recent research article.
• Identify common missteps when attempting to find and apply research for evidence-based practice, and how to solve them.

 
Presenter:
Taylor Williams, M.S., CCC-SLP
 
Presenter Bio:
Taylor Williams is a current school-based SLP in Texas and a writer for The Informed SLP. His clinical passions include stuttering, AAC, serving children with complex communication needs, and the nuance of social language development especially in early adolescence. As a person who stutters he still hasn’t quite generalized his speech tools outside of the therapy setting, but outside the speech room his interests include smelling salt water, running in the woods, and hiding on the front porch with his wife from their 8 and 16 year old boys.
 
Presenter Disclosures:
Taylor Williams receives compensation from The Informed SLP. No other financial or non-financial disclosures.

 Level:
Intermediate
 

To receive CEUs for this session, participants are required to complete a course evaluation that includes two self-assessment questions to enhance your learning.