Consumers' proposed solutions to barriers to access of rural and remote speech pathology services

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 58-64

  O'Callaghan, Anna M ^a,b   McCallister, Lindy ^a   Wilson, Linda ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information technology; Paediatric; Service delivery; Speech pathology; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248706292     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14417040500125277     Document Type: Article

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