Caroline Bowen PhD"How to Steer Clear of Illegitimate Treatments for DLD"
I wrote a little article for parents about time-wasting, money-wasting, opportunity-wasting, hope-wasting "interventions" for Developmental Language Disorder for #DLDandME It's here:
https://dldandme.org/how-to-steer-clear-of-illegitimate-treatments-for-dld/
It includes tips to help families, and people with DLD to avoid practices that lack evidence of effectiveness.
🐝 As usual, I have a bee in my bonnet about #Pseudoscience.
How to Steer Clear of Illegitimate Treatments for DLD - DLD and Me
Caroline Bowen, A.M., Ph.D. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia EVIDENCE-BASED SPEECH-LANGUAGE PRACTICES Good practice is based on scientific evidence. It is an agreement between (1), the needs of the child and family, (2), the expertise of the speech-language pathologist (SLP), and (3) the published, peer reviewed research evidence. Conscientious parents everywhere pursue a gamut of approaches, procedures, and activities that are not evidence based. They are tempted for many reasons: The practice is ‘the fashion’, or ‘natural’ or ‘holistic’. It is new or tried-and-true. Someone they trust recommends it. Most of all, they are tempted because they will try almost anything to help their child. Sometimes even credentialed mainstream professionals become involved in delivering suspect treatments, honestly believing they are legitimate and necessary to children’s progress. Here are some tips to help you avoid practices that lack evidence of effectiveness. WHAT DOES ‘LACKING IN EVIDENCE’ MEAN? Saying that an approach is lacking in evidence can mean: sufficient published scientific research has been done to show that the approach has no merit and should not be pursued or recommended. The approach is disproven. little or no scientific research has been done on the approach or the theory it is based on. Therefore, […]