Category Archives: Speech and Language Therapy
Practice change in speech and language therapy: from PhD thesis to Plain English
It’s embarrassing as a speech and language therapist to admit this: I find it difficult to communicate the findings of my PhD in a way that can be easily understood. My thesis is open access, but access doesn’t make it … Continue reading
Posted in Critical realism, implementation science, PhD, Qualitative research, Research, Service delivery, Speech and language development, Speech and Language Therapy, Writing for publication
Tagged communication, implementation, intervention, practice change, Qualitative research, speech and language therapy, writing for publication
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Making memories: equal pay and learning about oral history
This (10th November) is Equal Pay Day 2016, the point in the year when women in Britain effectively stop earning relative to men. I’ve just come across an abridged oral history from 2006 reflecting on the fifteen year equal value … Continue reading
Posted in Oral history, Qualitative research, Research, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged Oral history, Pam Enderby, PhD, speech and language therapy
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Presenting research findings: Tales of the unexpected
A friend getting ready for her viva was given a great bit of advice: there will always be something unexpected which you can only prepare for by accepting it will happen. I was reminded of this following my first experience … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, CPD, Ethics, implementation science, PhD, Qualitative research, Research, Speech and Language Therapy, Uncategorized
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How can we talk about photos in research and therapy?
Penny Tinkler presented an IIQM webinar this week, ‘Talking about photos: how does photo-elicitation work and how can we use it productively in research?’ She explained that photo-elicitation doesn’t always meet researchers’ expectations and so, in order to use it well, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, Qualitative research, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged photo-elicitation, Qualitative research, speech and language therapy
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Wired, tired or expired? A week of practice change @WeSpeechies
My week as ‘rotation curator’ of the @WeSpeechies handle on Twitter is coming to an end. The tweetchat on our topic ‘Making a change in your practice – what does it take #WeSpeechies?’ generated a particularly wide range of perspectives. This blog post is a chance for me to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, implementation science, Research, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged #WeSpeechies, CFIR, implementation, journal clubs, narrative approaches, outcome measures, speech and language therapy, trials
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How do speech and language therapists go about doing their work, and why do they do it that way?
Although my PhD is in the field of implementation, I have a somewhat uneasy relationship with the word. According to WordReference.com, its etymology can be traced back to Late Latin, meaning ‘a filling up’ in the sense of completion, satisfaction or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, journals and articles, CPD, implementation science, Research, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged implementation, Ray Pawson, speech and language therapy
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Manualised interventions – can they help us change practice?
“The profession of speech therapy in Great Britain has never taken kindly to the construction of stereotyped programmes of treatment. It perceives therapy to be a creative process in which procedures are used with considerable selectivity.” This introduction to Jennifer Warner, … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, implementation science, Research, Resources, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged BCRP, intervention, manual, speech and language therapy, TIDieR, What Works
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Smoothing the way for practice change
Journal Clubs are becoming popular as a way for teams to look together at research evidence and decide if practice needs to change as a result. But do we give enough thought to what happens next? Introducing and getting familiar with … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, implementation science, Professional standards, Research, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy
Tagged accessible, implementation, normalisation process theory, speech and language therapy
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What does it take to make a practice change, #WeSpeechies?
Making a change in your practice – what does it take? This is the theme for Twitter’s @WeSpeechies from 20th-26th April 2014, when I will be taking a turn to curate. An hour-long #WeSpeechies tweetchat on Tuesday 22nd at 8pm (BST) includes 5 questions … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, implementation science, PhD, Professional standards, Research, Resources, Service delivery, Speech and Language Therapy, Web/Tech
Tagged #WeSpeechies, speech and language therapy
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Life is academic after speechmag
In 2011 it was time to bring Speech & Language Therapy in Practice to a close, and I was faced with the problem of what to do next. At a point where some rational decision making was probably called for, I … Continue reading
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