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The PhD in Translational Health Sciences Program is proud to announce the Dissertation Defense of:
PhD Candidate: Rosalyn Davis, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologists’ Perspectives on Evidence-Based Practice in the Healthcare Setting: A Qualitative Study
Dissertation Committee Chair: Shelley B. Brundage, PhD, CCC-SLP
February 10, 2023, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (EST)
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is required in the roles and responsibilities of speech-language pathologists (SLPs). However, since the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association introduced EBP in 2004, only a handful of studies have explored primarily school-based SLPs’ knowledge, skills, barriers, and facilitators to EBP in clinical settings. Surprisingly, SLPs in healthcare settings were the minority or absent in these studies, thus suggesting that the discipline lags behind other healthcare disciplines such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing. This phenomenological study has identified how SLPs in healthcare 1) defined and described their use of EBP, 2) perceived barriers and facilitators to utilizing EBP, 3) modeled and taught EBP in clinical supervision, and 4) perceived barriers and facilitators to clinical supervision in healthcare settings.