Speech Pathologists in Education Practice Guideline - Survey results September 2020

Summary and Recommendations for the New Practice Guidelines

Summary

Recommendations

Speech pathologists experience barriers to implementing best practice

• The Guideline to include evidence based implementation and change management strategies. • The Guideline to include common barriers to implementation of best practice and effective, evidence based strategies for maximising for responding to the top 5 reported barriers. • Speech Pathology Australia develops an implementation approach for introducing the practice guidelines and supporting practice. • The Guideline to define evidence based practice. • The Guideline to use the best available evidence in development. • The Guideline to describe how to engage in evidence based practice. • The Guideline to define outcome driven practice in education contexts • The Guideline to describe how to engage in outcome driven practice including, how set up services with outcomes in mind, and how to measure outcomes. • The Guideline to define and describe collaborative practice, including student voice in decision making and effective team based practice.

Speech pathologists are guided by and value evidence based practice Speech pathologists are guided by and value outcome driven practice Speech pathologists are guided by and value stakeholder centred practice