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M P Allen. 1997. Update: priority issues in communication disorders.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9180579/
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Throughout the educational, medical, psychological, and social sciences, meta-analysis is the present-day, broadly accepted means for combining many quasi-experiments in a synthesis for the purpose of establishing the weight of scientific evidence bearing on a certain research question. Meta-analysis thereby is the preferred method for determining the preponderance of evidence in clinical-outcome research relating to questions of treatment efficacy and treatment effectiveness. Relatively few meta-analyses appear in the literature of the communication disorder sciences. The purpose of this tutorial is to enhance the familiarity and accessibility of this technology in the domains of audiology and speech-language pathology. The results of the accompanying example constitute a preliminary meta-analysis of patient-perceived treatment effectiveness. The substance of the tutorial, however, transcends disciplinary interests regarding types of communication disorder.
The diagnosis of communication disorders is a complex clinical task that can have significant clinical, social, and economic consequences for the patient. This issue is about the conceptual process by which clinicians perform this important clinical task. Through the presentation of ten clinical cases, experienced clinicians illustrate a variety of diagnostic decision-making approaches that can be used to answer important clinical questions. In this initial article, the diagnostic themes that have emerged from these cases are summarized and four diagnostic strategies that can be used in making clinical diagnoses are discussed.