Participants will be qualified professional speech and language therapists with specialist knowledge of working with children with speech sound disorders (SSD). They will take part in a virtual workshop to discuss and agree a standard process for assessing and diagnosing speech sound disorder in children. They will agree a list of interventions for SSD and which ones should be used to treat the different sub-types of SSD. Participants will also be invited to complete an online survey and online
Conditions
Interventions
Umbrella review of current literature to inform content for the COS and minimum dataset.
Participatory workshop with parents and SLTs to agree the diagnostic process for SSD.
Expert panel of SLTs and
Sponsors
North Bristol NHS Trust
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Any gender, age, ethnicity or socio economic grouping. 2. Any qualified SLT 3. HCPC/RCSLT registered 4. Specialism or special interest in working with children with SSD
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Unqualified or unregistered SLTs (HCPC/RCSLT). SLT with no experience of working with children with SSD.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| A comprehensive list of speech sound assessments and interventions, used with children between x and Y, at any point in their treatment pathway. This will be elicited through discussion with the focus group members, and supplemented through a list compiled by the research team through a prior umbrella review. These outcomes and assessments will then be reviewed using a nominal-group/Delphi technique to understand which of the assessments and interventions are most commonly used in practice. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| There are no secondary outcome measures | — |
Countries
England, Scotland, United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed