Understanding research and evidence-based practice in communication disorders a primer for students and practitioners - Haynes, William O.; Johnson, Carole E. (Boston Pearson, 2009)
The importance of research in communication sciences and disorders -- Scientific principles and methods used by researchers -- Crafting scientific and answerable questions -- Controlling threats and confounding variables through experimental design -- Levels of measurement and distribution of scores -- An introduction to hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- Common statistical analyses for finding differences among two or more groups or conditions on one independent variable -- Studies that analyze differences in groups using factorial designs with more than one independent variable : between, within, and mixed -- Studies that measure relationships among variables or attempt prediction -- Single-subject experimental designs in clinical fields -- Overview of evidence-based practice -- Levels of evidence -- Framing the clinical question and searching for the evidence -- Evaluating the evidence -- Evidence-based practice : blending patient values/preferences, scientific evidence, and clinical expertise -- Producing research as a student or practitioner -- Grantsmanship : funding research endeavors.
Keywords: Communicative disorders -- Research -- Methodology; Speech therapy -- Research -- Methodology; Audiology -- Research -- Methodology; Evidence-based medicine