Journal article
Are Australian speech-language therapists working in the literacy domain with children and adolescents? If not, why not?
T Serry, P Levickis
Child Language Teaching and Therapy | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | Published : 2021
Abstract
A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 219 speech-language therapists (SLTs) to explore their views and practices when working with children and adolescents who have literacy difficulties. They were recruited via 11 workshops hosted by Speech Pathology Australia, held across Australia and completed the survey prior to attending their respective workshop. Participants reported overwhelming support for SLTs to work with students struggling to learn literacy and supported not only a role for SLTs to work with children in the preschool years to promote readiness to learn to read at school, but also a role for services to students beyond the early years of school. While SLTs valued spec..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge Speech Pathology Australia for facilitating the professional development workshops that created an opportunity for this research. I would especially like to recognize Sharon Crane and Anita Roddicks for their support and their tireless work. We also thank Speech Pathology Australia for their support for this research project and in particular, for advertising this study to people who registered to attend the workshop. We would like to thank each and every person who took the time to respond to this survey.