ABSTRACT
This book is not about treatment. It has used the methods of the research laboratory, which cannot be transferred directly for routine use in clinics because this would be impractical. However, the results are not devoid of relevance to clinical practice by any means. Many elements of the research that have been discussed now should be adopted in well-funded clinics, selected procedures can be transferred in part to general-purpose clinical settings, and other procedures can be adopted in modified form. For a speech pathologist or a parent, simply understanding how research studies are designed, what the findings indicate, and their limitations is important in order for them to judge what treatments are likely to be effective. In this chapter, an attempt is made to identify those aspects from the discussion in earlier parts of this book that are applicable in clinics, and to identify some research requirements more specific to clinical practice, which have not been covered in the volume so far.
