Evidence-Based Practice in Speech-Language Pathology

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This course is designed to prepare speech -language pathology students with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to make independent judgments about the validity of clinical research and to implement evidence -based clinical practice in clinical environments. This course focuses on the concepts of evidence -based practice, with emphasis on forming answerable clinical questions and effective literature search strategies. The EBP approach prepares students to find, appraise, and integrate evidence for clinical decision-making, with particular emphasis in this course on (a) prognosis for a given client, and (b) effectiveness of clinical interventions. Based on presentation of case scenarios, students will formulate the key question(s), rapidly search medi cal and health- related databases, select best available evidence, appraise the evidence using the EBP approach, and describe application of the evidence in a clinical context.