Delivering blocks of supports S8E16

About this episode

The episode discusses the delivery of supports in therapeutic blocks and the associated benefits and challenges.

In this week’s episode, Liz Bell and Dr Rosemary Hodges speak with guest host Olivia Parkinson, about delivering supports in therapeutic blocks. Rosie and Liz, discuss some of the enables and barriers to shifting to a model of therapy blocks, as well as some of the benefits they have encountered. Liz and Rosie also discuss how to select, or design PROMs to most accurately measure and report the progress that has been made in this block. Resources: Baker, E., Masso, S., Huynh, K., & Sugden, E. (2022). Optimizing Outcomes for Children With Phonological Impairment: A Systematic Search and Review of Outcome and Experience Measures Reported in Intervention Research. Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 53(3), 732–748. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_LSHSS-21-00132 CUBED assessment overview: https://languagedynamicsgroup.com/cubed-overview/ Therapy Plan template: https://wssp.com.au/product/therapy-plan-template/ E4BP article: https://tlr-hub.asha.org/conducting-and-reporting-of-research/from-triangle-to-diamond-recognizing-and-using-data-to-inform-our-evidence-based-practice/ SPA resources: EBP position statement…

People in this episode

Hosts: Liz Bell, Dr Rosemary Hodges

Guest: Olivia Parkinson

Topics covered

• therapy blocks
• support delivery
• outcome measures
• speech pathology
• therapeutic models

Keywords

• therapy blocks
• support delivery
• outcome measures
• speech pathology
• progress reporting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Speech Pathology Australia, Language Dynamics Group, WSSP, ASHA

Books & works: Optimizing Outcomes for Children With Phonological Impairment: A Systematic Search and Review of Outcome and Experience Measures Reported in Intervention Research

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