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Evidence-based practice in communication disorders: progress not perfection.

Ray D Kent
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PURPOSE: This commentary is written in response to a companion paper by Nan Bernstein Ratner (Evidence-Based Practice: An Examination of its Ramifications for the Practice of Speech-Language Pathology). METHOD: The comments reflect my experience as Vice President for Research and Technology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). One of the responsibilities of the Vice President is to monitor the work of the Advisory Committee on Evidence-Based Practice. CONCLUSION: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a challenging but attainable goal for audiology and speech-language pathology. Our professions have made rapid progress in developing the foundations for EBP. To be sure, a great deal of work remains to be done, but we have learned from the experiences of other professions and have built our own systems to support EBP.

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Ray D Kent. 2006. Evidence-based practice in communication disorders: progress not perfection.. https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2006%2F030)

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