ABSTRACT Purpose to identify, collect and analyze in the scientific literature evidence of existence speech therapy protocols for collecting clinical history, according risk classification, especially oromyofunctional disorders, infants preschoolers. Research Strategy We selected published studies, without temporal delimitation, electronic databases LILACS, SciELO PUBMED; gray (Google Academic)...

Purpose: Phonemic awareness has been identified as a critical area of early literacy instruction. Evidence suggests that educators may not have sufficient phonemic awareness skill to provide effective phonemic awareness instruction. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) demonstrate strong phonemic awareness skill relative to other educators (Spencer, Schuele, Guillot, & Lee, 2008). This study sou...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to consider some of the ramifications that arise when a discipline newly endorses evidence-based practice (EBP) as a primary guiding principle. Although EBP may appear straightforward, events experienced by peer disciplines that have preceded us in the implementation of EBP raise questions about defining acceptable forms of evidence for treatment effective...

This letter addresses some issues in Lohman's (2008) article on students' perceptions of face-to-face pseudostuttering experiences. Concerns include the valuation of the pseudostuttering experiences on the telephone as compared to face-to-face experiences in training graduate students in speech-language pathology.