Original Research

Comparing the Role of Speech Therapist in Unique Settings Clinics Special Education and Hospitals

Rooma Imtiaz1
Behavioral and speech education services (BASES) Lahore
Rabia Qamar2
Zia-ud-Din University Karachi
Humaira Waseem3
Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore
Jamshid Haider Malik4
Khyber Medical Institute RCRS, Peshawar
Maria Tahir1
Behavioral and speech education services (BASES) Lahore
Sehrish Bari1
Behavioral and speech education services (BASES) Lahore

✉ Correspondence: Rooma Imtiaz Email: rooma.imtiaz@yahoo.com

DOI https://doi.org/10.70302/jpsim.v2i3.2151
Volume: 2, Issue 3 Pages: 221–225 Published: 20 Sep 2021
Received: 21 Jun 2021 Accepted: 12 Aug 2021 Published Online: 20 Sep 2021

Abstract

Objective

Speech therapy programs are aimed to improve communication skills in children with speech language and communication challenges which may reflect the ability to communicate verbally. The speech language pathologist / therapist (SLP/Ts) operate in various settings such as clinics, special education, and hospitals where they interact with Speech Language Communication Needs (SLCN) of children. The aim of this research was to investigate the difference in therapeutic approach, different view point or knowledge when it comes to a disorder.

Methodology

This cross sectional study was conducted for 6 months among three settings clinics, special education and hospitals of Pakistan. Total 105 children participated with 35 participants in each group. An adaptive questionnaire with 5 sections according to our culture and region was given to the participants. Data was analyzed through SPSS version 25.0 and presented through frequency and percentages and ƿ value was collected from different settings clinics, special education and hospitals SLP/Ts by using purposive sampling-techniques.

Results

There was no considerable difference among the groups in first three sections regarding SLP/Ts knowledge and experience in their different settings like in language behavior indicators, SLCN terminologies, some features associated with speech difficulties but in the other two sections the results showed difference in the features associated with language difficulties and the barriers faced by the SLP / Ts in their settings by exploring knowledge and experience of SLP /Ts.

Conclusion

It was concluded that clinics and special education SLP / Ts provided much needed recovery services to tackle the SLCN. However the SLP / Ts in special education needed to be taught about SLCN-associated terminologies.
Keywords: Speech language pathologist/therapist, Hospitals, Special Education, Clinics, Speech Language Communication Needs (SLCN).

Keywords
Speech language pathologist/therapist Hospitals Special Education Clinics Speech Language Communication Needs (SLCN).

How to Cite This Article

Imtiaz R, Qamar R, Waseem H, Malik JH, Tahir M, Bari S. Comparing the Role of Speech Therapist in Unique Settings Clinics Special Education and Hospitals. J Pak Soc Intern Med. 2021;2(3):221–225. doi:10.70302/jpsim.v2i3.2151

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Conflict of Interest

All authors declare no competing interests.

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Funding

No specific funding was received for this research.

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Data Availability

Data are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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