Parents' expectations, awareness, and experiences of accessing evidence-based speech-language pathology services for their children with autism

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 109-118

  Auert, Elle Jane ^a   Trembath, David ^b   Arciuli, Joanne ^a   Thomas, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Evidence based practice; Speech language pathology.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTISM; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPECIALIZATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY;

ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PARENTS; SPECIALIZATION; SPEECH THERAPY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY;

EID: 84863400701     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549507.2011.652673     Document Type: Article

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