IJLCD - Outcomes from a community speech and language therapy service treatment waiting list

RCSLT - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

What happens to children on a waiting list when they aren't receiving treatment? How many continue to need intervention and how many improve spontaneously? It's difficult to research because it's too hard to collect this data ethically and also without impacting the subjects and therefore potentially changing the results.
Nevertheless, occasional opportunities arise for reviewing data from waiting lists. In this podcast we chat with Elizabeth and Sue about their research into an ethnically diverse community paediatric speech and language therapy service waiting list in the UK, where levels of social disadvantage are high.
The paper is:
Outcomes from a community speech and language therapy service treatment waiting list: The natural history of 525 children with identified speech and language needs
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.12877
Elizabeth Hesketh, Paul White, Doug Simkiss & Sue Roulstone
First Published:
15 May 2023
Useful resources:
Outcome measurement overview: https://www.rcslt.org/speech-and-language-therapy/guidance-for-delivering-slt-services/outcome-measurement/#section-2
RCSLT Online Outcome Tool ('ROOT'): https://rcslt-root.org
Interview with Professor Pam Enderby: https://soundcloud.com/rcslt/rcslt-podcast-pam_enderby-31-07-2020
Find out more about ROOT: https://www.rcslt.org/speech-and-language-therapy/guidance-for-delivering-slt-services/outcome-measurement/#section-2
Enderby, P. and John, A. (2019) Therapy Outcome Measure User Guide. Croydon: J& R Press Ltd
Language growth in children with heterogeneous language disorders: a population study, Courtenay Frazier Norbury , George Vamvakas, Debbie Gooch, Gillian Baird, Tony Charman , Emily Simonoff, Andrew Pickles
Child Psychol Psychiatry; 2017 Oct;58 (10) :109 2-1105., https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpp.12793
PROTOCOL: Language interventions for improving oral language outcomes in children with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review - Nordahl‐Hansen - 2019 - Campbell Systematic Reviews - Wiley Online Library https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cl2.1062
NOTES:
For RCSLT members, access this paper by navigating to the IJLCD website from our A-Z journals list here. Also, if you would like further information on the research terms used in the podcast, or many other aspects of research design, please navigate to the ‘Sage Research Methods’ collection from the Research Methods page of the RCSLT website’.
The interview is conducted by Jacques Strauss, freelance producer, on behalf of The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Please be aware that the views expressed are those of the guests and not the RCSLT.