ABSTRACT
In the UK, the demands of evidence-based practice in the National Health Service, providing evidence of student progress for school inspections, of value-for-money and of user satisfaction, have become a central part of practitioners' work in the fields of education and health. The first is where Module 2 was carried out with a group of three deaf students, aged 9-11, at a deaf school. The second shows the scores for Module 8 Work Experience meeting people supervisor, carried out with a group of five deaf students, aged 14 and 15, at a deaf school. Small-scale action research studies on skill maintenance, first carried out in 2012, showed evidence of learning being retained, even when students have had no intervention in the interim between completing a module and being reassessed 13 months after completing the module. A template for writing up a smiLE Therapy module summary with the outcome measures and an audit is provided in to help get people started.
