ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the culture of “evidence-based practice” that has become such a key element of the underlying rationale for the management of health care in developed, and indeed developing, countries. Historically the principles underpinning evidence-based practice apply across all branches of health care and great steps have been taken in the treatment of children with developmental language disorder and in the field of speech and language science more generally to use evidence to inform practice. Practitioners completed a questionnaire relating to their practice for a single child with receptive language impairment within the 5–11 age range, providing details and rationales for several therapy activities. The chapter aims to a growing body of work investigating the perspectives of children and young people with speech and language impairments and provides new information about preschool children’s perspectives on speech and language therapy in particular.
